Can Exercise REALLY Make Your Brain Younger | This NEW Study Says YES!
You don’t need to look far to find some information telling you that exercise is good for your 5lb mushy membrane. And it’s even a pretty easy experiment to carry out, as one of the immediate byproducts of doing it, is the release of mood boosting, pain relieving neuro-chemicals call endorphins.
But, is it possible for this short-term physical discomfort to do the impossible and actually make your Brain younger today than it was yesterday, a month ago, and potentially even years ago?
Well, as you could imagine, that’s a pretty loaded question. However, one that a research team analyzing structural MRI Brain scans of individuals who followed a 12-month aerobic exercise protocol, argue it can!
Displaying that a byproduct of the enhanced blood flow, up-regulation of neurotrophic factors, more efficient mitochondria, potential neurogenesis stimulation, reduced inflammation, ramped-up cellular recycling, lymphatic drainage, and better overall metabolic function….. Was a structurally younger looking Brain.
And although measuring “Brain Age” is still an imperfect science, they hypothesize that these TWO factors were critical for the observed outcome…
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