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Brain Function
With 30 minutes or more of physical activity, it can protect your brain function, preserve cognitive skills and reduce your chance of getting diseases and disorders. So, what are you waiting for? Let's be smart by staying active!
Exercising Can Help Your Overall Brain Function
Exercising as little as 30 minutes a day can play a role in improving learning and memory. With exercise, it can stimulate the body's nervous system, causing it to release the two chemicals: serotonin and dopamine. These two chemicals are what controls are emotions and make us feel content. Thus, making you feel alive and alert after exercising. You feel as if you are a new person after exercising, since you can concentrate more. The more you exercise, the higher you can function because physical activity can stimulate the growth of new brain cells. The growth of brain cells will result in the brain getting bigger in areas associated with memory and learning, thus improving your brain function.
Left picture displays the brain activity after sitting quietly.
Right picture displays the brain activity after 20 minutes of walking.
Exercising Can Make You Smarter
Exercising can make an impact on mood, sleep, stress, and anxiety. With physical activity, it can improve sleep, mood, reduce stress and anxiety. Thus, leading to a better cognitive function and concentration. In addition to this, some parts of the brain that control memory and thinking are larger in people who exercise. With exercising and eating healthy, it can help boost your brain and help with concentrating. In older adults, exercising can help reduce cognitive impairment. So, it is alway best to start exercising and eating healthier food items at an earlier age.
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These are the lobes and its functions that can be improved and enhanced with exercising.
Help Reduce Your Chance Of Getting Diseases and Disorders
Exercising can help reduce your chance of getting disorders and diseases. A study shows that physical activity can help reduce depression. Since there are multiple functions of the brain, depression is a condition that can affect many people. However, exercising can reduce depressive mood by just around 10 to 30 minutes followed by exercise, but this effect was not influenced by exercise intensity. Just the duration. Participants who were not currently taking antidepressants had a higher baseline depression scores, but did not demonstrate a different antidepressant response to exercise compared to those taking antidepressants (Meyer, Koltyn, Stegner, Kim, & Cook, 2016).
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With physical activity, here is a list of diseases and disorders that can be reduced or avoided with being and staying active.
So to acutely improve depressed mood, exercising any kind of intensity has shown to significantly improve feelings of depression with no differential effect following light, moderate, or hard exercise. In addition to this, pharmacological antidepressant usage did not limit the mood-enhancing effect of acute exercise. Therefore, acute exercise was used as a symptom management tool to improve mood in depression, with even light exercise as an effective recommendation. Although there are several evidence that indicate that physical activity reduces depression, it still needs to be researched throughly by replicating and extending to other components of exercise prescription such as duration, frequency, and mode in order to optimize exercise guidelines for improving depression (Meyer, Koltyn, Stegner, Kim, & Cook, 2016).
So, what are you waiting for? Let's be active!
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