Exercise Essential for your brain...
Today's post: Tuesday, 5-27-2008
The recent issue of Time magazine, 5-19-2008, has a cover story on “Forget-Me-Not
How to Keep Your Memory sharp.”
Inside, it’s on page 42.
We’ve posted on how it has been discovered that regular exercise grows new brain cells & suggested that if you want your brain to resist losing function, it makes good sense to increase the repair of your brain by doing regular exercise.
This article takes that to a more advanced level. My idea was that exercise gives your brain extra protection. This IS correct. In addition to reducing “normal” memory loss, it also helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
But the article cites research that shows that “normal” memory loss & Alzheimer’s disease are two different problems & attack your brain differently.
Apparently, regular exercise -- by growing new brain cells -- helps to prevent both.
But the article makes it very clear, the findings go beyond saying exercise is a good idea.
It makes it quite clear that NOT exercising regularly for at least 1,000 calories of exercise a week will cause you to develop “normal” memory loss.
You’re not just less likely if you do exercise, you are certain to lose some of your memory function if you don’t.
The article also points out that in addition to growing new brain cells, regular exercise helps prevent your blood sugar from being too high.
That’s also essential to protect your brain it turns out.
Interval cardio & strength training that we have been posting about do best at preventing your blood sugar from being too high.
But even regular walking is enough to help your blood sugar from being too high at least some & it apparently is enough to prevent most “normal” memory loss if you do enough of it.
(Interval cardio & progressive strength training burn that many calories in less time in addition to their other benefits. But even walking will do the job.)
The article also mentions that eating blueberries is very likely protective of your brain & adds that, for people who aren’t allergic to them, eating raw walnuts apparently is also.
But the main value of this article is that it shows that exercise is essential to keep your brain working well.
So, if like most of us, your work uses your memory & thinking skills, to continue to do it well, it’s very important that you exercise regularly.
Today's post: Tuesday, 5-27-2008
The recent issue of Time magazine, 5-19-2008, has a cover story on “Forget-Me-Not
How to Keep Your Memory sharp.”
Inside, it’s on page 42.
We’ve posted on how it has been discovered that regular exercise grows new brain cells & suggested that if you want your brain to resist losing function, it makes good sense to increase the repair of your brain by doing regular exercise.
This article takes that to a more advanced level. My idea was that exercise gives your brain extra protection. This IS correct. In addition to reducing “normal” memory loss, it also helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
But the article cites research that shows that “normal” memory loss & Alzheimer’s disease are two different problems & attack your brain differently.
Apparently, regular exercise -- by growing new brain cells -- helps to prevent both.
But the article makes it very clear, the findings go beyond saying exercise is a good idea.
It makes it quite clear that NOT exercising regularly for at least 1,000 calories of exercise a week will cause you to develop “normal” memory loss.
You’re not just less likely if you do exercise, you are certain to lose some of your memory function if you don’t.
The article also points out that in addition to growing new brain cells, regular exercise helps prevent your blood sugar from being too high.
That’s also essential to protect your brain it turns out.
Interval cardio & strength training that we have been posting about do best at preventing your blood sugar from being too high.
But even regular walking is enough to help your blood sugar from being too high at least some & it apparently is enough to prevent most “normal” memory loss if you do enough of it.
(Interval cardio & progressive strength training burn that many calories in less time in addition to their other benefits. But even walking will do the job.)
The article also mentions that eating blueberries is very likely protective of your brain & adds that, for people who aren’t allergic to them, eating raw walnuts apparently is also.
But the main value of this article is that it shows that exercise is essential to keep your brain working well.
So, if like most of us, your work uses your memory & thinking skills, to continue to do it well, it’s very important that you exercise regularly.
Labels: Alzheimer’s disease, how to keep your memory sharp, mental decline, normal memory loss, protect your brain, senior moments
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