The Brain on Exercise, How Your Workout Makes You Smart
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
By sapping energy reserves (i.e. burning calories), exercise spurs the body to protect its most precious, and energy-demanding, organ: the brain. Scientists have found this is an example of "good stress;" it starts a chain of events that make us smarter,
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