Welcome to the Dr. Berg healthy ketone intermittent fasting podcast now your host the man taking

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You know exercise is good for a lot of different things but it's actually very good to prevent

the shrinkage of your brain as you get older.

Now there was a study that I'm going to put down below that was based on 120 older adults

doing aerobic exercise randomize control study and this is what they found they found

there was an increase in the volume that's the front part of your hippocampus now what

is the hippocampus this is the part of brain that is in control of spatial navigation or

spatial memory your ability to remember locations and understand where you are in relationship

to something else.

So if they put you in one of those mazes that they have you're going to have a heck of

a time trying to find your way out of that.

So certain birds that fly south during the winter have huge hippocampus structures to

allow them to navigate.

So let's one tiny thing that the hippocampus does but it does other things too related

to memory also exercise will increase blood flow to your hippocampus.

Now the hippocampus is one of the few areas of the brain that can regenerate.

Most of the brain cannot regenerate but the hippocampus can and that's involved with

memory so that's the good news.

All right and then we have an increase in BD and F in hippocampus it stands for brain

derived neurotrophic factors and that's the thing that helps regrow the brain.

An exercise will stimulate that in the hippocampus.

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