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Episode #198: Your Brain On Exercise
Barbell Medicine Podcast
How to Increase Hippocampal Volume
When you exercise one of the metabolic byproducts is lactate, not lactic acid lactate and then hydrogen ions separately lactates actually a fuel that ends up going back to the liver to create glucose via the Corey cycle. So yeah, we think we know that we can increase hippocampal volume. It seems like there's significant neurogenesis. They're signaled via BDNF secondary to lactate in the blood. Also neurotrophic factors again, BDNF goes up also seems to be driven by lactate,. An improvement in brain circulation due to increased blood flow in the cerebral vascular system. The other few interesting things. Like as people go age, I'm not having strokes is generally good
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