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How to Keep Your Brain Young and Healthy | Louisa Nicola

The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

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The Effect of Exercise on Neurodegeneration

I know one of your big goals is to discover a new myokine that's going to help with neurodegeneration. So myokines are muscle based proteins. They're produced within the skeletal muscle and when the skeletal muscle is contracting in an either an eccentric or a concentric phase, you can get a release of these amazing molecules. I always say that your muscles are like a pharmacy for your brain. These molecules when they're released, they go into the bloodstream, into the circulation and they go to different areas of the body. We have receptors on our organs. We've got receptors on our heart, on our liver, our spleen and in our brain. And when

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