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How to train your brain: Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola details how exercise, sleep, and nutrition help our brains perform

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Resistance Training and Cognitive Performance

If we don't engage in reses training, we're just allowing this ngen process to happen on a time scale of its own. We are supposed to be able to dictate that time scale with intentional type of resistance training. Absolutely. It's the difference between arobic physical activity and resistance training. Will when we engage in long, inner endurance events, for example, we released this thing called bd enf,. You know, the two thousands was all about bedyanf, brain derived neurtropy factor. And that was great. But when we do resistance training, we release these minor kinds which act on metabolic and andecrine pathways. Now if they act on this

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