Want to get smarter? Exercise!
Research is showing that exercise induces nerve cells to multiply, improve their connections, and protect them from damage. This even occurs when brain or nerve damage has occurred from Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease or traumatic injury.
During exercise a nerve enhancing factor called BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) is manufactured that acts like fertilizer to nourish nerve cells. When exercised mice are compared to sedentary mice, they learned faster, and on brain biopsy they had twice as many new brain neurons, had higher BDNF levels, and had better nerve cell connections.
People who exercise have better morale and handle stress better. In fact, when I was a medical intern, the local psychiatrist at the hospital I was at had all of the hospitalized patients in the psychiatric ward out in the parking lot for 2 hours a day walking or running. The average patient was out within a week or two instead of months and drugs were not needed.
If exercise is not a part of your daily routine, I recommend it. Start out slow, work up to an hour a day. Do some of it outside if possible. Our bodies lineage is for it to perform an abundance of physical work or exercise. If one sits all day in an office staring at a computer screen and breathing stuffy air without sunshine, it deteriorates into a flabby blob with brain and nervous tissue doing the same.

Science Service Feb. 25, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 8
Buff and Brainy
Exercising the body can benefit the mind
Christen Brownlee
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060225/bob10.asp

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