Sort Your Brain Out
Muller x My Protein commissioned me to dig into the scientific research on the impact of exercise on the human brain for a recent PR campaign “Sweat to Spark”. They wanted to know if there was any evidence to support the idea that exercise primes our brains for social interaction. As it turns out, there’s plenty!
The brain benefits of mindfulness meditation are numerous and I’ve written about it in this brain blog many times and the literature support
Over the past few years I’ve written many brain blogs that touch upon the vital importance of getting 7-8 hrs sleep per night
In this brain blog I argue that a more varied terrain provides a greater challenge for various brain regions when taking exercise outside and so delivers more benefits than just keeping your heart healthy.
Two or more hours of outdoor recreation per week is sufficient to yield a significant improvement in health or well-being
To gain the greatest neural benefit from aerobic exercise, running cross country is better than plodding along on a treadmill, pounding a cross trainer or even hitting the track. And here’s why…
I thought I’d dedicate this month’s blog to how to thicken up the brain wires that connect the left and right parts of your frontal brain.
This month’s blog is dedicated to providing a bit of background information to support my top three brain hacks
Instead of eating a couple of dozen chocolate biscuits in one sitting, this simple tweak to my daily habit means that I’m now only munching my way through four, five or six of them. The best bit? Resisting the temptation requires no mental discipline whatsoever.
People who exercise regularly have lower rates of anxiety & depression, even boasting greater cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex & medial temporal lobe