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February 4 - February 6, 2020
Exercise immediately increases levels of dopamine, and if you stay on some sort of schedule, the brain cells in
your motivation center will sprout new dopamine receptors, giving you newfound initiative.
“In humans, exercise patterns are generally less rigorous, and rarely follow a daily consistency.”
daily exercise ramps up BDNF more rapidly than alternate days—at a rate of 150 percent versus 124 percent after two weeks.
molecular memory: if you’ve had the experience of exercising regularly, your hippocampus can get back up to speed very quickly.
every day is best but that even intermittent exercise works wonders.
going from no activity to running several kilometers a day presents a major new stress on the system.
It might be the case that even though running increases levels of serotonin, without enough receptors for it to plug into the neurons, it can’t do its job.
important to start slow if you haven’t been exercising and have a lot of other stress in your life.
social support has a powerful effect on the brain and can both prevent the negative impacts of stress and clear the way for exercise to ramp up the machinery of growth, so keep connected to keep your connections.
if you keep at your routine, your system will adjust itself to take adva...
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While it’s true that we’re born to run, we’re also programmed to take advantage of bountiful periods and to conserve our energy for the long stretches of foraging and hunting that surely lurk around corner.
our modern environment is incongruous with
our genes.
it’s important to replace the need to work for it with the demands of aerobic exercise.
The beauty of exercise is that the more you do, the more you’ll imagine yourself doing.
keep your mind flexible.
perfect example of what can go wrong and also what can go right.
From your genes to your emotions, your body and brain are dying to embrace the physical life. You are built to move. When you do, you’ll be on fire.
