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How Exercise Benefits Mental and Physical Health

Exercise has immediate effects on our brains, there are two parts of the brain that are impacted the most:
 

  • Prefrontal cortex: right behind your forehead, critical for things like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality. 
     

  • Temporal lobe/hippocampus: key structure critical for your ability to form and retain new long-term memories for facts and events.

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Short term effects:

  • increase levels of neurotransmitters

  • improve your reaction times

  • better focus and attention

  • immediate effects of mood

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Long term​ effects:

  • increase your cardiorespiratory function

  • bigger and stronger your hippocampus

  • decline in aging

  • produces brand new brain cells

  • increase hippocampus volume 

  • improve your long-term memory

  • improve coherent and integrated brain function

  • prevent dementia or Alzheimer's disease 

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