Benefits of exercise for the brain

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Exercise is the best thing you can do for your brain. It is a transformative thing for anyone willing to put the time and the effort towards a better life. The focus point of this article is the benefits of exercise for the brain.

#1. Exercise has an immediate effect on your brain.

A single workout that you do will immediately, increases levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. Exercise will improve ability to shift and focus attention, and reaction times.

#2. The most common studies in neuroscience studies

Looking at effects of long term exercise is improved attention function dependent on your prefrontal cortex. You don’t only get better focus and attention but the volume of the hippocampus increases as well. The most transformative thing that exercise will do is its protective effects on your brain. Here you can think the brain as a muscle. The more you are working out the bigger and stronger your hippocampus and prefrontal cortex gets.

Why is it that important?

Because the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus are the two areas that are more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases and normal cognitive decline in aging.

So with increased exercise over your lifetime you are not going to cure dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases but what you are going to do is you are going to create  the strongest biggest hippocampus and prefrontal cortex so it will take longer for those diseases to actually have an effect on you.

Good news you don’t have to become an athlete to get these effects. The rule of thumb is you want to get 5 time a week exercise minimum 30 minutes per workout session and you want to get aerobic session in it that it gets your heart rate up.

Bringing exercise in your life will not only give you happier more productive life today but will protect your brain from incurable diseases and in this way it will change the trajectory of your better life to the better.