why you should exercise regularly stay tuned and I'll explain hey I'm Dr. Sten
Ekberg with wellness for life and if you would like to master true health then
hit that subscribe button so you can stay tuned why should you exercise
regularly you've probably heard hundreds of
different reasons from counteracting depression and anxiety to losing weight
and getting fit and sleeping better and so forth and those are all true but it
all boils down to three things the number one reason that you should
exercise regularly is that it activates your brain that's it that's the number
one reason so your brain is just like any other body part any other organ use
it or lose it if you don't work out a muscle it's get floppy and atrophied if
you don't activate your brain then it shrinks and loses vitality and energy
and strength and exercise is the number one way to activate your brain most of
the other health benefits is a consequence of you activating your brain
so that your brain works better there's something called proprioception
that's the brain's ability to know where the body parts are and what they're
doing so proprioception is information from the body that tells the brain
what's going on and movement accounts for 90% of all that proprioception when
you exercise when you move it's not necessary so much that you get tired or
that you have pain or that you exhaust yourself every time but you want to do
something that involves a lot of movement a lot of complex movement a
very popular one is walking and that's a great form of exercise but in terms of
complexity it doesn't provide a whole lot of challenge for the brain it's
pretty easy to walk the brain kind of gets into a pattern and it's the same
after you get the pattern it's over and over
and there's nothing wrong with that but if you can add some complexity then
it's more challenging for the brain and it has to rewire itself with more
combinations and and more variable if you like to dance if you like to do some
kind of sport like tennis or badminton or racquetball or something a little
more complex then you provide more proprioception jumping rope is great
lots and lots of different ways so there's the number one way they've even
found that kids who ran a mile in the morning they improved their grades by at
least one letter on average people with depression get significantly less
depression simply by exercising so it's very very powerful and that's again the
number one way why you should exercise is that it activates your brain
the second reason you should exercise is that it changes hormone levels and the
number one hormone that you want to activate with exercise is growth hormone
and the number one hormone that you want to reduce as a consequence of exercise
is insulin then there's lots of other hormones but these two hormones really
sort of override most of the others so when you exercise you make your body
more sensitive to insulin your cells have an easier time opening up and
allowing that glucose in your receptors become more sensitive so you will reduce
insulin resistance and insulin resistance is maybe the number one
health challenge that we have in this country today probably more than 50% of
the whole population has some significant degree of insulin resistance
and exercise is the single most powerful way to reduce insulin resistance of
course the other one being eating right which we'll cover in another video the
other hormone that were interested in is growth hormone human growth hormone and
is an anti-aging hormone it's a rejuvenating hormone it's a fitness
hormone they sometimes give it to geriatric patients because it helps them
their vitality it brings them back to life well you don't have to take it
externally you just need to exercise and we'll do a separate video to talk about
the specifics on how to activate it but basically the best way to activate human
growth hormone is high-intensity exercise another benefit of human growth
hormone is that it's a fat burning hormone so if you'd like to lose that
weight if you'd like to increase your metabolism then increasing growth
hormone is the way to go another thing growth hormone does is it
increases what's called a toff adji meaning it's a clean up function in the
body so when you're starving or when you have high intensity exercise then you
increase the growth hormone and when you're starving the body gets better and
recycling dead cells and waste products you you get a better functioning cleanup
crew on the inside with more growth hormone so those are the top two reasons
why you should exercise regularly and the vast majority of health benefits
come from those two factors and the third one is that you get more fit the
third reason you should exercise regularly is that it increases your
fitness level and that's sort of a no-brainer use it or lose it the more
fit you get the stronger your heart is the better your muscles are working the
easier it is to get through your daily life the easier it is to bend down and
pick things up the easier it is to walk across the parking lot and to climb the
stairs and so forth and just like everything else you want to maintain all
of your cells in perfect vitality so that counts for all your organs your
brain your heart your muscles and so forth those are the top three reasons
why you should exercise regularly all other health benefits are pretty much a
of improving those three factors so we'll have some more videos for you
coming up shortly on a little more detail on each of those three areas some
areas might even be more than one video will go into exercise a little bit more
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