14/10/2019
Physical activity can improve your health and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease and regular activity can improve your quality of life. Exercise changes the brain in ways that protect memory, focus and thinking skills.
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University of British Columbia, found that regular aerobic exercise, the kind that gets your heart and your sweat glands pumping, appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning. Resistance training, balance and muscle toning exercises did not have the same results.
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Exercise stimulate the release of growth factors in the brain that affect the health of brain cells, the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, and even the abundance and survival of new brain cells. And improves mood and sleep.
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“Even more exciting is the finding that engaging in a program of regular exercise of moderate intensity over six months or a year is associated with an increase in the volume of selected brain regions,” says Dr. Scott McGinnis, a neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School.
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Researchers recommend a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, preferably all, days.
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