Hello and welcome to another video!
Let me start this video by telling that almost everything you know about exercise is wrong.
We usually associate exercise with loosing weight but thats a big misconception, in fact
exercise is the least productive way to loose weight, so if you are thinking to loose weight,
exercise should be the last on your to do list.
Because exercise seems to have completely different affects than we all have thought.
In a book called Spark that was published in 2008 by John Ratey, proved that Exercise
has more effect on your brain than any other parts of your body.
Surprised?
Even I was when I read the book.
Exercise turns to be a secret recipe to boost your motivation, focus and memory.
Its like a magic pill that instantly boosts your brain capabilities.
In fact, Exercise boosts your mental abilities more than drugs such as Zoloft that has significant
impact on your mental abilities.
How?
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Lets first understand how the brain works in the first place!
Your Brain isn't that fixed organ that cannot be changed, its an adaptable organ that changes
exactly like any other muscle on your body, like when you lift a weight for example, you
strengthen your arms.
The more you use it, the stronger and more flexible it becomes.
unlike your arms muscles, Remember that your brain is the most important organ in your
body.
Everything we do and think and feel is governed by how our brain cells, or neurons, connect
to one another.
And what connects them are neurotransmitters.
There are many different kind of neurotransmitters in your brain, but the ones we will focus
on this video are Dopamine, Serotonin and Norepinephrine
I know that it sounds already little complicated but I promise that I will simplify it as much
as possible.
The first one is Dopamine, a neurotransmitter thats responsible for your motivation.
It seeks and searches for a reward to keep you motivated.
It provides you with the motivation to do things.
If you ever wanted to buy something, learn or win.
Its all because of the dopamine, it searches for the potential reward that you might get
out of it which drives you to do that thing, so that you can get that reward.
In other words, The reasons that you are unmotivated is because your dopamine level is low.
In fact, researches tried to experiment and turned off the dopamine receptor in the brain
of a rat, and the results were astonishing.
The rat became so lazy that it chose to starve to death and didn't moved to eat the food
even when the food was in in the cage, because it was no longer motivated.
And human brains work in the same way.
Your Dopamine determines your level of motivation.
And the good news is that.
Studies have proved that exercise instantly and significantly boosts your dopamine level,
which means that it will instantly make you feel motivated.
If you are wondering, How long you should exercise to get that dopamine boost.
Dont worry, we will talk about that in a moment.
The second neurotransmitter is Serotonin.
Its is basically the police man of your brain, It influences your mood, anger, and aggressiveness,
and helps to keep your brain’s activity under control.
In other words, if you feel anxious and depressed, or stressed out, thats probably because your
Serotonin level is low.
And thats why all of antidepressant pills are focused on increasing your serotonin level,
because thats what gets you out of depression and reduces your stress.
And guess what again?!
Studies have shown that exercise have direct influence on your serotonin’s level, which
means, that the best cure to depression is to simply, exercise.
Now, the last neurotransmitter is Norepinephrine.
Its responsible for your attention.
If you are struggling to stay focused, thats more likely because of low Norepinephrine.
It works like the other 2 neurotransmitters we talked about.
High levels of it sharpens your attention and low levels of it makes it hard to focus.
Almost all of the drugs affect these neurotransmitters.
Cocain for example increase your dopamine level, therefore makes you feel really great.
imagine if you could increase all of this neurotransmitters at the same time, without
any drug.
Thats exactly what exercise is for, thats why the author of the book calls it - the
magic pill.
But that not the whole story.
There is something else.
Exercise also boosts your memory and learning abilities and thats because of protein called
brain-derived neurotrophic factor or BDNF in short.
Studies have shown that, the part of your brain thats responsible for your memory and
learning has BDNF.
The great part of is that, BDNF gets unleashed when our blood is pumping, it Grows your Brain
cells and increase your learning capacity.
In other words, exercise can directly improve your memory.
Imagine, how would your day be, if could boost your motivation, mood and attention instantly
every single morning.
And increase your memory and learning capacity on the top of that.
well, all what you need to do is to start your day with an exercise.
but how many hours do you need to exercise?
According to the author of the book, 6 hours in a week is enough.
That can keep your neurotransmitters high throughout the day.
But its way much better if you exercise right before studying or working.
because at that moment your neurotransmitters are at the highest level and BDNF is just
unleashed.
Thats why you feel, energetic, motivated and inspired after a morning jog.
So right before you start working on that project, do yourself a favour and exercise
for around 5 to 10 minutes.
If you want to know about the brain and how exercise affects it, then go and check out
the book- Spark.
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Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one.