{"id":3395,"date":"2024-04-02T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:25:32","slug":"how-exercise-strengthens-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"How Exercise Strengthens Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Physical activity improves cognitive and mental health in all sorts of ways. Here\u2019s why, and how to reap the benefits.<\/p>\n

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Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always been active, playing sports and riding her bike to school every day. Then, in the late-1990s, while working as a staff scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, she discovered<\/a> that exercise can spur the growth of new brain cells in mature mice. After that, her approach to exercise changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started to take it more seriously,\u201d said Dr. van Praag, now an associate professor of biomedical science at Florida Atlantic University. Today, that involves doing CrossFit and running five or six miles several days a week.<\/p>\n

Whether exercise can cause new neurons to grow in adult humans \u2014 a feat previously thought impossible, and a tantalizing prospect to treat neurodegenerative diseases \u2014 is still up for debate<\/a>. But even if it\u2019s not possible, physical activity is excellent <\/span>for your brain, improving mood and cognition through \u201ca plethora\u201d of cellular changes, Dr. van Praag said.<\/p>\n