Exercise is a powerful tool for mental health from "summary" of Spark by John J. Ratey
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function. It directly affects our brain’s ability to perform. Aerobic exercise has a unique capacity to exhilarate and relax, to provide stimulation and calm, to counter depression and dissipate stress. This is a bit like a “magic pill” that can improve learning on three levels: first, it optimizes your mind-set to improve alertness, attention, and motivation; second, it prepares and encourages nerve cells to bind to one another, which is the cellular basis for logging in new information; and third, it spurs the development of new nerve cells from stem cells in the hippocampus. Exercise also has a global effect on our brain’s cellular machinery. It increases the production of a protein called Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), wh...
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