• April 23, 2024

If you think that a good hike , Session of Pilates or a little bit of a bicycle only serve to have a good physical condition, you're wrong, because it's proven that exercise Brief and intense also affects a good memory.

A team of researchers from Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California (United States), he conducted an experiment to try to discover what effect he had pedaling on a stationary bike for 6 minutes, at 70% of maximum capacity, after viewing a series of photographs of nature and animals.

One hour later, participants were given a surprise memory test on the images they had previously seen, the results of the study, published in the journal Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, showed clearly that those who had exercised had better memory than those who had not.

The researcher Sabrina Segal and his team of scientists attribute this fact to the fact that while we practice intense exercise, norepinephrine is released, a chemical messenger of the brain that plays an important role in the modulation of learning and memory.

According to Segal, "with an increasingly aging population, we need to figure out how to improve the quality of life and prevent mental deterioration," so exercise could be one of the answers.

In the good memory also influences what we eat

"Food is like a kind of pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," he says. Fernando Gómez-Pinilla , one of the main researchers of the University of California , who else has contributed to the brain-feeding equation.
Gómez-Pinilla has spent decades dedicated to studying what is the effect of food, but also sports and sleep, on mental functions.

For this scientist of Chilean origin, "a balanced diet together with the practice of physical exercise, besides protecting us from cardiovascular diseases and even the Cancer , also protects the brain against possible damage.

In addition, it keeps mental illness away, enhances cognitive abilities and fights against the effects of age. " And more abounds about the foods that we should consume.

Our brain is the result of what we eat: the basis of a good memory lies in the exercise Brief and intense and in a balanced diet, which includes foods rich in omega 3, folic acid and antioxidants.

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