🧠 Exercise and brain health: Physical activity boosts neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline, enhancing mood and focus. 💪 Immediate effects: A single workout can improve attention and reaction times for at least two hours post-exercise. 🔄 Long-term benefits: Regular exercise increases hippocampal volume and improves long-term memory.

🧍‍♂️ Attention and focus: Exercise enhances attention and focus, which depend on the prefrontal cortex.😊 Mood improvement: Sustained exercise maintains higher levels of mood-enhancing neurotransmitters over time.🛡️ Protective effects: Exercise strengthens the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, areas vulnerable to aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

🏋️‍♂️ Accessibility: Achieving benefits requires moderate exercise, like brisk walking, without needing a gym. 🔬 Personal journey: Suzuki’s own experience with exercise led her to shift her research focus to study its brain benefits.

👩‍🔬 Scientific backing: Suzuki’s findings align with a growing body of research supporting exercise’s positive impact on brain function. 🎯 Optimum exercise prescription: Ongoing research aims to tailor exercise recommendations to individual needs for maximum brain health benefits.

A single workout that you do will immediately increase levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline. That is going to increase your mood right after that workout.

What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

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