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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Team Fitness Gurus No. 26: The Connection to the Brain


There is a connection between cognitive health and physical fitness. According to researchers the act of introducing change into your life through different exercise movements and patterns can increase your mental attention and allow your brain to make new associations and increase neurotrophins, which signal brain cells to grow, differentiate, and survive. In addition, exercise indirectly impacts brain health because it improves well-being, self-image, your quality of sleep, and tends to reduce the symptoms and progress of many diseases.

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