Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. guest. Today I'm really excited to have Brad Stolberg on the show. Brad researches, writes, and speaks about health and the science of human performance.

He's a columnist with Outside magazine and New York magazine, and he's also written for the

Los Angeles Times, Runner's World, Forbes, NPR, and the Harvard Public Health Review.

Thanks for chatting with me today, Brad.

Hey Scott, great to be here.

So you write about a lot of stuff relating to mastery and performance, high performance and sort of how to get the best reach

your goals. So you write about all stuff. So let's start with one of your most recent articles

on how exercise can shape you far beyond the benefits of just the physical, right?

Yeah, exactly. So if you could talk about that, what is the latest research show about the benefits of exercise.

Yeah, totally.

So it's a topic that really intrigues me, and I approach this, I guess, empirically first,

because it's something that I've lived.

So I noticed that when I started really pushing myself hard and in training in endurance sports,

in addition to all of the kind of traditionally spoken about physiological benefits of exercise.

So weight management, blood sugar, hopefully it will help me, you know, avoid osteoporosis in the future.

I noticed that everything else in my life that otherwise might have

stressed me out or put me in a rudder cause great challenge everything just

kind of became easier when I was training really hard physically.

I'd say I probably first had this realization I jotted it down in a journal maybe I don't know

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