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Episode #198: Your Brain On Exercise

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Is There a Limitation in Neuroscience?

Neuroscience is extremely complex and as advanced quite a bit. But the tools that we have to study it, just as an example, you mentioned up front that we have something like 85, 86 billion neurons. Those are connected by something like 100 trillion synapses. The connections that we have, those are what seem to be critically important. Exercise increases levels of BDNF in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain.

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