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Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.

Today's clip is from episode 381 with psychiatrist, globally renowned speaker and best-selling author,

Dr. Anders Hansen. In this clip, he shares how exercise can change our brain and reduce our risk of depression.

You say in your book that exercise is a way of hacking evolution, and you make the case

that exercise is important for not only how we feel, concentration, memory, stress tolerance.

Yeah, so exercises has been shown to be incredibly important for cognition.

Basically all of our cognitive function, memory, ability to focus, creativity, even intelligence,

it seems, is positively affected by exercise.

And it also protects us against depressions and anxiety.

And the brain actually seems to be the organ in the body that benefits the most from exercise.

And one of the best studies on this was done where you scan the size of the hippocampus. And hippocampus is a memory center of the brain.

It has many important functions, but one of them is memory.

And hippocampus decreases in size for every year that passes.

It peaks in size when you're between 25 to 30,

and thereafter it starts to shrink by about 1% per year.

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