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Do you know the right answer?.
Question number 20 in our School of Fitness.
Maintaining a healthy fit life will do wonders for our well being and physical health in body and mind.
But will the actual physical aspects of our brain change & improve the same way your skeletal muscle does when you squat, run and deadlift?.
2050AD
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Make up your mind, and once you have made your pick click the "And the Correct Answer is" label down below to reveal the right one.
1.
What? There is absolutely no way that lifting weights and running will change my brain physically speaking the same way my muscles and body fat adapt and change.
2.
Regular fitness will absolutely change the physical mass and thickness of my brain, and it is for the better, just as with our muscles and cardiovascular performance.
Science teaches us that not only will our mighty back and traps grow in mass and strength, and physical capacity when we lift weights, nor will just our heart and mind and Mitochondria, and mood respond in a positive way when we run, jump and do martial arts.
The same beneficial response applies to our physical brain aswell.
Resulting in a brain matter volume increase in the hippocampus when we participate in regular fitness activities. But as if growing more brain matter is not enough, we now know that daily physical fitness activities also increase the thickness of our delicate brain structures.
And equally important, daily fitness activities has been proven to increase cognitive capacity in memory and critical thinking, information gathering and attention.
And that is as an added bonus of keeping fit and active on top of health benefits such as holding back Alzheimer, Parkinson´s and other forms of dementia. And yes, the reverse holds equally true, less physical activity ( less than the equivalent of 4000 steps per day ) translates to lower cognitive performance and physical mass and thickness in our brain.
You can find one of the latest findings in a 2-year long study which was recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. The link is down below, and here is a quote from the conclusion of the study.
Quote
"Older non-demented individuals complaining of memory loss who walked more than 4000 steps each day had thicker MTL sub-regions and better cognitive functioning than those who walked less than 4000 steps."
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