You know the saying you can’t run away from your problems?
Maybe you can. Or at least reduce the impact.
Exercise, and particularly running, may erase the long-term effects of stress on your brain health.
Exercise can prevent your brain from suffering the negative side-effects of chronic stress. We can’t always control our stress, but we can control how much we exercise. A new study from Brigham Young University suggests that simply going for a run can eliminate the effects of stress on our hippocampus in our brain.
Your hippocampus is responsible for memory and learning.
Learning, and memory, occur when the connections strengthen in between the neurons in our brain. These connections or synapses are strengthened over time, but they are also weakened with chronic stress. Prolonged periods of stress impair the connections and our memory.
A Neuron is an Electrically Excitable Cell That Processes and Transmits Information by Electrical and Chemical Signaling.
However, if you exercise, the negative impact of stress on your brain is eliminated. No reduction in neural connection or memory loss. The best exercise to reduce the effects of stress could be running, but any exercise will reduce the effects of stress on your brain.
Which makes me want to know, what type of exercise are you doing today?
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Shayla
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