Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Friday, July 07, 2023

A meta-analysis questions the cognitive benefits of physical activity.

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I give up. If anything was supposed to have been proven I would have thought it would be that exercise has a beneficial effect on brain hea...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Rigorous study does not find that exercise and mindfulness training improve cognitive function in older adults.

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Wow, here is a study by Lenze et al. - not confirming the results of numerous other less rigorous studies reported in MindBlog posts - that...
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Monday, April 04, 2022

Magic mind therapy….. Moving your body.

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Gretchen Reynolds interviews Jennifer Heisz about the contents of her new book " Move the Body, Heal the Mind ," which details t...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

MindBlog keeps the blood pumping

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Discussion of the therapeutic effects of exercise has been one of the topic threads in MindBlog since its beginning...reporting effects of d...
Friday, July 05, 2019

Social Media - no effect on adolescent life satisfaction?

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Orben et al. (open source article) provide a study whose results contest a common opinion, reinforced by several previous studies, that ado...
Monday, January 29, 2018

How our bones regulate our weight.

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Jansson et al. report that bones have a gravity sensor that initiates metabolic changes that compensate for a sudden change in body weight ...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Exercise alters the microbiome, enhancing immune function.

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Reynolds points to interesting work by Allen et al. showing that exercise by lean, but not obese, subjects enhances microbial production o...
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Monday, March 13, 2017

Exercise slows the aging of heart cells.

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Ludlow et al. find (in female rats) that exercise slows the loss of caps (telomeres) on the end of chromosomes that prevent damage or frayi...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Some brain benefits of exercise evaporate after a short rest.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study by kinesiologists at the Univ. of Maryland that probed what happens when very active and fit people st...
Friday, August 05, 2016

To remember something better, wait, then exercise.

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Another nice bit on what exercise can do for you.  The abstract from van Dongen et al. : Highlights •Performing aerobic exercise 4 hr a...
Friday, July 01, 2016

How exercise enhances brain renewal and growth.

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Several studies by now have shown that exercises enhances the production of BDNF (Brain Derived Trophic Factor), which leads to the creation...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Exercise and intermittent fasting improve brain plasticity and health

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I have had numerous requests for a PDF of the article referenced in a Dec. 29, 2014 post - on how exercise and fasting stimulate brain plast...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Aging brains - more physical activity, more gray matter, less Alzheimers.

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I like to pass on any work I see relevant to exercise, aging, and the brain. The following is from Raji et al. BACKGROUND: Physical...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

Muscle mass and nerve control enhanced in octogenarian athletes.

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Power et al. expand their earlier studies on active runners ~65 years old to find ~14% greater muscle mass and ~28% more functioning motor ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Overkill in techno-aids for 'Mens Sana in Corpore Sano'

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None of us would argue with the 'sound mind in a sound body' injunction from Juvenal’s Latin satires (~100 AD), a goal that can be a...
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Friday, March 04, 2016

New nerve cells in the brain generated best by sustained aerobic exercise

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Nokia et al. show, in rats, that aerobic exercise is much more effective than high-intensity interval training or resistance training in en...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Modest exercise gives maximum health benefits.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings that reviews studies published in PubMed since 2000 that included at le...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

Exercise enhances frontal brain lateralization characteristic of younger brains.

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As we age beyond 40 years or so, mental tasks that require attention, problem solving, decision-making and other types of high-level thinkin...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Lower leg power predicts cognitive aging.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study of 162 healthy female twin pairs , some identical, and some not, who 10 years previously had completed ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Our bodies can sabotage our healthy behaviors..

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I pass on an interesting chunk from Reynolds' review of work by Mansoubi et al. showing that people who use sit-to-stand workstations ...