3 reasons why the brain gets tired

• April 24, 2024

After a physical activity session do you experience tiredness, decreased mood and drowsiness? It is possible that you are experiencing a mental fatigue.

Excessive workloads, stress, lack of sleep and poor diet are not the only factors that can produce mental fatigue . A state that can cause significant disruptions in the emotional and professional life of the individual, since it loses part of its capacity to assimilate information and, therefore, makes more mistakes.

GetQoralHealth It offers you 3 reasons why the brain can get tired after a physical activity:

1. Excess serotonin. According to an investigation carried out by the University of Copenhagen When the body is at the limit after a hard and prolonged exercise the brain responds with fatigue. The serotonin that activates the muscles can also become a brake, a safety measure that the brain sets in motion to prevent them from becoming hyperactive. The specialists suggest that an excess of exercise can generate an increase, little favorable, of serotonin what originates symptoms like fatigue or drowsiness.

2. Learn a new routine. Like studying, learning a new movement or exercise requires the presence of various neuromuscular, metabolic and enzymatic mechanisms. Learning a new routine requires the attention of the cerebral neocortex in a process very similar to that used when studying something complex. Here a great energetic expenditure takes place which generates a mental fatigue.

3. Custom If the same neural circuits are always used; example, in order to perform the same exercise routine, tiredness is generated in the brain. A fatigue that in the long term causes atrophy in its functions to face new challenges.

According to World Health Organization, Performing half an hour a day of exercises is perfect to maintain the physical and mental health of the organism; however, remember that excesses can be harmful.

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Video Medicine: How to fix the exhausted brain | Brady Wilson | TEDxMississauga (April 2024).