#429 BITESIZE | How Exercise Changes Your Brain and Reduces Your Risk of Depression | Dr Anders Hansen

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We all know that exercise is good for our physical health, but exercise can be just as powerful for our brain and mental health.

Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests.

Today’s clip is from episode 381 of the podcast with psychiatrist, globally renowned speaker and best-selling author Dr Anders Hansen.

In this clip he shares how exercise can change our brains and reduce our risk of depression.

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0:57.0	Today's clip is from episode 381,
1:00.0	with psychiatrist, globally renowned speaker and best-selling author Dr. Anders Hansen.
1:07.8	In this clip, he shares how exercise can change our brain and reduce our risk of depression.
1:15.0	You say in your book that exercise is a way of hacking evolution
1:20.0	and you make the case that exercise is important for not only how we feel,
1:25.4	concentration, memory, stress tolerance.
1:28.9	Yeah, so exercises has been shown to be incredibly important for cognition.
1:35.4	Basically all of our cognitive function, memory, ability to focus, creativity,
1:41.1	even intelligence, it seems, is positively affected by exercise and it also protects
1:46.9	us against depressions and anxiety and the brain actually seems to be the organ in
1:51.8	the body that benefits the most from exercise.
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