Friday, March 20, 2020

Friday Series - Week 7 of 13 – Wendy Suzuki’s TED Talks on The brain-cha...

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Today's topic is bringing
alertness and energy in our day today activities. I found a TED talk very
interesting.

The brain-changing benefits
of exercise | Wendy Suzuki - 8,359,449 views

About the Speaker - Wendy
Suzuki – Professor of Neuroscience, Neuroscientist, author

Wendy Suzuki is researching the science behind the extraordinary,
life-changing effects that physical activity can have on the most important
orgain in your body: your brain.

What's the most
transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says
neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses
the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your
brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

Lessons learnt from TED
Talks
·        
The
powerful effects of physical activity - Simply moving your body, have
immediate, long-lasting and protective benefits for your brain. And that can
last for the rest of your life.
·        
She
discovered the science underlying why exercise is the most transformative thing
that you can do for your brain today.
·        
The
thing in our head right now, that is the most complex structure known to
humankind.
·        
The
first is the prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead, critical for things
like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality.
·        
You
have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the
temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability to form and retain
new long-term memories for facts and events. And that structure is called the
hippocampus.
·        
She discovered
and I experienced the brain-changing effects of exercise.
·        
Exercises
have this great mood boost and this great energy boost.
·        
Well, she
started feeling stronger. She started feeling better, She even lost that 25
pounds.
·        
Have a regular exercise program.
·        
She was
able to focus and maintain her attention for longer than she had before. And her
long-term memory -- what she was studying in her own lab -- seemed to be better
in her.
·        
Regular
exercise gives better mood, better energy, better memory, better
attention.
·        
Exercise
is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today for the
following three reasons.
1.      
Number
one: it has immediate effects on your brain. A single workout that you do will
immediately increase levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and
noradrenaline. That is going to increase your mood right after that workout. Lab
showed that a single workout can improve your ability to shift and focus
attention, and that focus improvement will last for at least two hours. And
finally, studies have shown that a single workout will improve your reaction
times which basically means that you are going to be faster at catching that
cup of Starbucks that falls off the counter, which is very, very important. Exercise
actually changes the brain's anatomy, physiology and function. The hippocampus
-- or exercise actually produces brand new brain cells, new brain cells in the hippocampus,
which actually increase its volume, as well as improve your long-term memory.
2.      
Number
two: the most common finding in neuroscience studies, looking at effects of
long-term exercise, is improved attention function dependent on your prefrontal
cortex. You not only get better focus and attention, but the volume of the
hippocampus increases as well. And finally, you not only get immediate effects
of mood with exercise but those last for a long time. So you get long-lasting
increases in those good mood neurotransmitters.

But really,
the most transformative thing that exercise will do is its protective effects
on your brain. Here you can think about the brain like a muscle. The more
you're working out, the bigger and stronger your hippocampus and prefrontal
cortex gets. Why is that important? Because the prefrontal cortex and the
hippocampus are the two areas that are most susceptible to neurodegenerative
diseases and normal cognitive decline in aging. So with increased exercise over
your lifetime, you're not going to cure dementia or Alzheimer's disease, but
what you're going to do is you're going to create the strongest, biggest
hippocampus and prefrontal cortex so it takes longer for these diseases to
actually have an effect. You can think of exercise, therefore, as a
supercharged 401K/PF for your brain, OK? And it's even better, because it's
free.

The rule of
thumb is you want to get three to
four times a week exercise minimum 30 minutes an exercise session
, and
you want to get aerobic exercise in. That is, get your heart rate up. And the
good news is, you don't have to go to the gym to get a very expensive gym
membership. Add an extra walk around the block in your power walk. You see
stairs -- take stairs. And power-vacuuming can be as good as the aerobics class
that you were going to take at the gym.
3.      
She
want to leave you with one last thought. And that is, bringing exercise in your
life will not only give you a happier, more protective life today, but it will
protect your brain from incurable diseases. And in this way it will change the
trajectory of your life for the better.

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Tagline:. Move your body

Reference:-
Today’s video
The brain-changing benefits
of exercise | Wendy Suzuki - 8,359,449 views

High energy 1 min exercise

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