How to train your brain: Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola details how exercise, sleep, and nutrition help our brains perform
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Resistance Training Is Better Than Arobic Physical Activity
resistance training releases various mio kinds. Mio kinds are muscle based proteins and various hormones that act on the brain, and that can grow the brain str ly and functionally. And then i'm just going to point out one more study in 20 21. I'd be remiss if i didn't conclude with this one, because they took a group of mild cognitive impairment patients. Now m c i is a predimension state. They took these patients and put them through resistance training for six months. And what they found was that they grew new connections in the hippocampel sub regions.
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