Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, discusses the benefits exercising has on the brain and how it may help prevent dementia.
I motivate myself by saying, exercise is my medicine and that's the only medicine I need.... I exercise everyday for 30 minutes. I'm 54 and I feel fantastic!
@@jamescurtis7758 That's kind of silly. Only ignorant people can look for information? I exercise everyday and i have an absolute hunger for this type of content about body, mind and well being! So of course that i'm here to see if i can learn constantly! Do you just know when is the pinnacle of your knowledge?
"Commit not to a lifelong exercise, but commit to the next three weeks. You're going to do four days a week for the next three weeks." Small steps can make a difference in your life. Great video! 💯
I've read many sources of information about exercise and the brain, but this is the most simple, brief, and clear explanation about the benefit of exercise to the brain. To get the benefit of exercise, we must push ourselves beyond what we think is the limit. We need to push beyond when we first sense of fatigue. Because it is from our brain, not from our muscles. When our brain tells us don't go, then push a little bit beyond that. What an awesome, 'He got to the gym at 5.30 every morning for one hour exercise prior to going to work'
The reassuring statement at 5:15 changed my mentality. Now when I’m feeling tired during a workout, I’m even more motivated to keep pushing because I know that it’s REALLY beneficial for the brain to basically override the signals of tiredness/panic and keep pushing.
@@vishnuts742 true. I do sometimes walk and run now but I just like going with a partner and don’t have anyone to go with. It’s a little dangerous to go by myself where I’m living at currently.
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He says after a month you notice that you feel more mentally alert and that you think "more clearly." But I'm not sure you do. I've been exercising a long time, pretty regularly for years. I am pretty fit and my cardiovascular health is quite good. But I've never felt more mentally alert from exercising. But I'm not quite yet 40 and my mental faculties have always been excellent, learning new things and thinking about complex ideas on a daily basis. So maybe the effects wouldn't be very noticeable for people like me. I'm not sure. And my mother has never really exercised, certainly not to the extent he suggests. She's only walked, not very briskly, to stave off osteoporosis and early PAD., though she's been gardening for years. But she is as sharp as ever at 80, sometimes surprising people by solving really challenging puzzles. So I'm inclined to think brain health is mostly genetic, and I only exercise for the physical bodily benefits. If it boosts brain functioning or preserves it, I just take it as an unexpected side benefit.
@@ampa4989 I guess it works for some people and doesn't for others. I think the point they're making is that in general it works for the average person
Doing cardio workout is not recommended for a skinny person like me. But can workout like push up etc also be beneficial for the brain? I need an answer, thanks.
At 3:35 he gives the wrong message that exercise burns fat. It doesn't. It is now evident that exercise drives extensive neuroendocrine changes in the body to in fact fight fat loss! Therefore, not the exercise but eating healthy diet is the only intervention to lose weight. Nevertheless, I agree that exercise is great for mind and heart. But unfortunately an unhealthy diet, poor sleep, drug, tobacco or alcohol use can ruin any potential benefits from exercise.
Of, my dear, someday you won't be an invincible teenager or a college student and you'll seek out health information of your own accord. But even when I was in my teens and twenties, I was interested in science and health. I stopped eating meat (except for fish) at sixteen (though I picked it up again after I had children -- too much effort). So maybe we're all different.
