Dr. Jennifer Etnier: The Cognitive Benefits Of Physical Activity (And How To Coach Kids The Right Way)

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Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jennifer Etnier is a researcher at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

In this show, you will enjoy some awesome insights on the connection between exercise and brain health and preventing Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Etnier is the principal investigator of the Physical Activity and Alzheimer’s Disease 2 study at UNCG and is the author of two books, Coaching for the Love of the Game, and Bring Your ‘A’ Game targeting adolescent athletes. If you can achieve the primary objective of walking frequently every day, you are going to lower your risk of Alzheimer's disease. There are immediate benefits to exercise of all kinds on brain function, so you get the best of both worlds with an instant boost in cognitive function and long-term disease prevention. Parents will enjoy ideas that encourage emphasizing improvement over winning, and ways to balance the competitive experience so everyone benefits.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:22.4	Jennifer, Et Nyer, coming to us from North Carolina,
0:27.1	and we have some exciting content to talk about,
0:31.4	centered on the cognitive benefits of physical activity.
0:35.2	What a fantastic subject,
0:37.1	and I imagine this is your passion, your life's work.
0:40.3	So I'd love to hear more. Yeah, that's great, Brad. I'm thrilled to have a chance to talk to you about it.
0:45.9	So we hear kind of vague notions that it's so good to get out an exercise and we have this subjective sensation of
0:56.2	feeling better. You just told me you got back from a great ski trip and you're happy. You're
1:00.4	at a positive disposition thanks to being out there in the beautiful mountains. And I feel the
1:05.7	same, of course, and it's such a centerpiece of my life. But I think now we're getting stuck into
1:10.4	all these patterns of
1:12.2	modern human behavior, especially with digital entertainment, and we're kind of missing that
1:17.2	link, which was previously automatic. We didn't have to think about it because we were out
1:22.1	there chopping wood in the forest and having a physical outdoor lifestyle, which now we can
1:27.0	basically choose out of
1:28.4	to our great detriment. So I'd love to hear more about the pros and the cons, really, of getting
1:33.7	out there. And then what happens when you're not out there in nature? Sure. Well, we've been doing
1:38.3	a lot of work trying to understand better how both single sessions of exercise and also a more lifestyle commitment
1:45.8	to exercise can benefit cognitive performance. And the work I do, I mean, I think it's the
1:51.5	most fun job in the world. I'm trying to answer this question across the lifespan. So we do a lot
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