Name: The #1 way to strengthen your mind is to use your body | Wendy Suzuki
Uploaded: 2023-08-18T22:00:49.000Z
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- I have been fascinated with the hippocampus

I started in 1998 as a young assistant professor

at New York University studying the hippocampus

and discover something really, really amazing.

So, I decided that I was just gonna work.

trying to understand how the hippocampus forms new memories.

I didn't have a lot of social relationships.

And a year and a half later, I felt so good.

my memory, my hippocampal dependent memory

that I was studying in my own lab, that seemed to be better.

Maybe it was this new level of physical activity

that was causing this really extraordinary change,

that I started seriously getting interested

in how exercise might be affecting the brain

I'm Dean of the College of Arts and Science

and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology.

Because I studied the effects of exercise on the brain,

people always wanna ask me about the 'runner's high.'

is this feeling of euphoria that comes with running.

You don't have to be a marathon runner to get this.

you are giving your brain what I like to call

"a wonderful bubble bath of neurochemicals"-

dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline, endorphins.

to the mood-boosting effects of exercise.

What if you give your brain a bubble bath

on a regular basis, for a week, or a month,

That's when those 'growth factors' kick in.

We know that the growth factors go directly

The hippocampus is an extraordinary structure.

that can grow brand new brain cells in adulthood.

And those growth factors help the hippocampus grow shiny,

critical for your ability to shift and focus attention.

and long-term changes that you get with exercise,

that start with that neurochemical bubble bath.

You don't have to become a marathon runner

You might say, "Oh, well, I'm in the sedentary camp,

And that is the principle of brain plasticity.

that the brain has an extraordinary capacity

Are you keeping yourself physically active?

even if you've been sedentary all your life,

you can start moving towards that bigger,

I love to advocate for personal experimentation.

that you're giving your brain a bubble bath,

When are you gonna apply it in your life?

My motivational tip for everybody is start small

and start with things you already know you like.

will start to give you immediate benefits

You don't even have to change into your spandex.

One of the things that I did over the pandemic

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The #1 way to strengthen your mind is to use your body | Wendy Suzuki

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