Myokines from your muscles communicate and control many reactions from your brain affecting mood, emotion, and cognition. Mind-body fitness is an irrelevant term. It’s ALL mind-body fitness.
Sometimes Less is Still a Lot
More is more, but less is still a lot. Especially when it comes to decreasing risk of dementia from physical activity. Here’s to you, underachievers!
Strength Braining
Strength training improves cognitive decline and provides neuroprotective benefits for the hippocampus. But don’t get too caught up in targeting types of exercise for specific brain regions.
Go Clock Yourself
Daylight Savings Time. Instead of complaining about it like everyone else, let’s use the idea of a clock face to create 4 new exercises you can use to expertly blend brain and body fitness. Use Timed Sets These exercises work best using time-based sets rather than reps. With all of the clock numbers bouncing around […]
What’s the Best Sport for Brain Health?
The best sport for brain health? There’s a “forest” answer that is correct and a “tree” answer that is too narrow. Here’s how to find the best one for YOU.
Curiosity Thrilled the Human
Curious how to make your brain grow and keep it sharp? Stay curious. Do stuff that is physically and mentally novel.
Superfitness: The Intensity & Complexity Spectrum
There are no superfoods. But there are SuperVillian Foods. We created them in a lab. “Superfoods” are just the normal, healthy foods we have consumed for all of human history. They have no superpowers and have difficulty balancing out the damage from SuperVillian Foods.
Superfoods or Superfitness?
There are no superfoods. But there are SuperVillian Foods. We created them in a lab. “Superfoods” are just the normal, healthy foods we have consumed for all of human history. They have no superpowers and have difficulty balancing out the damage from SuperVillian Foods.
The A-to-L-to-Z of Alzheimer’s – Free Webinar
Free webinar to learn the 18 lifestyle factors related to Alzheimer’s, a little-known sleep fact, and why brain games are not enough for brain fitness.
Should Brain Fitness Cost an Arm and a Leg?
Stop making fitness fancy. Fitness is not a product. Health is not something you buy. Brain health is no different. But it likely will not stay that way. It can be hard enough to be healthy even when it does not cost a small fortune. I believe fitness – including brain fitness – should be available […]