{"id":2635,"date":"2009-09-17T04:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:00:35","slug":"exercise-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/exercise-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Exercise Make You Smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwell.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fwhat-sort-of-exercise-can-make-you-smarter%2F%3F_r%3D5&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this NYT discussion of current research<\/a>, the answer may be yes&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain and affects thinking. Ten years ago scientists at the Salk Institute in California published the groundbreaking finding that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells. But fundamental questions remain, like whether exercise must be strenuous to be beneficial. Should it be aerobic? What about weight lifting? And are the cognitive improvements permanent or fleeting?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Why should exercise need to be aerobic to affect the brain? \u201cIt appears that various growth factors must be carried from the periphery of the body into the brain to start a molecular cascade there,\u201d creating new neurons and brain connections, says Henriette van Praag, an investigator in the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. For that to happen, \u201cyou need a fairly dramatic change in blood flow,\u201d like the one that occurs when you run or cycle or swim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The kicker is that it may need to be fairly intense, aerobic exercise &#8211; the kind that most people aren&#8217;t currently in condition to do.\u00a0 But, it&#8217;s certainly possible to train up to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/exercise-cancer-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">As noted elsewhere on the blog<\/a>, there are benefits to higher-intensity exercise that have NOTHING to do with weight loss (as desirable and beneficial as that may be)&#8230;this adds to the list.\u00a0 Thus, it&#8217;s as good a reason as any to turn up the heat in the gym, even if you&#8217;re happy with your current weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0this NYT discussion of current research, the answer may be yes&#8230; For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain and affects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,14,29],"tags":[83,868,1177,1207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}