New research offers further evidence that exercise can improve brain functioning and cognition. Exercise may also slow the aging process for the brain.
If you need help getting or staying motivated to change your lifestyle to include exercise, working with a health psychologist and nutritionist can help.
Check out this excerpt from a recent NY Times article.
The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship. Using sophisticated technologies to examine the workings of individual neurons — and the makeup of brain matter itself — scientists in just the past few months have discovered that exercise appears to build a brain that resists physical shrinkage and enhance cognitive flexibility. Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does.
via How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain – NYTimes.com.
