Moment 165: This Exercise Enhances Mood, Memory & Concentration: David Raichlen

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this moment, leading professor of evolutionary biology, David Raichlen discusses how to boost the brain benefits that come from exercise. Most people know that exercise can improve cognitive function, but don’t realise that different sort of exercise, like cardio or strength training, can provide different types of neurological benefits. David says that whilst all exercise is beneficial to the brain, research shows that the best sort of physical activity is a combination of physical and cognitive challenges. This helps the brain function as it copies how humans evolved to find food and survive. So this could mean that the next time you go for a run, choose the great outdoors over the treadmill and try different routes you haven’t taken before. Listen to the full episode here - Apple- https://g2ul0.app.link/J39pwN9c3Jb Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link/HDB7itjd3Jb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos David: https://www.raichlen.arizona.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	is all activity the same? So if I'm doing strength training, is that as beneficial for my brain is potentially going for a run outdoors?
0:41.0	That's a great question.
0:43.0	And, you know, we, there is not a ton of very clear work that's compared directly,
0:50.0	different types of activity in ways that we're, where I could tell you for sure this is the best one right there are data that suggests that resistance training is beneficial to the brain
1:00.4	There's more work on endurance activity and I actually think that's probably because it's easier to do rodent work on endurance activity than resistance and so trying to translate across those models is a little bit easier.
1:12.0	Both forms of exercise have benefits.
1:14.8	They may be through different pathways.
1:17.4	There may be different biological mechanisms
1:19.9	that are underlying those benefits.
1:21.8	I've kind of seen some cool work coming out lately that has tried to look at for example different types of endurance exercise so there's a great study that came out are you familiar with orienteering It's a sport where you're given like a map and a compass and you have to find your way across a route as fast as possible. So it kind of mixes endurance activity with spatial
1:44.7	navigation and and moving around your environment and figuring out where you
1:48.8	are typically done outside oh yeah always done outside a
1:52.3	typically done on natural, like, on trails and things, but people do do it in cities as well.
1:57.0	Oh, okay.
1:58.0	And this is over miles in kilometers.
2:00.0	Yeah, this would be like a trail run, kind of, or something like that.
2:03.4	And there's a great study that just came out looking at, it was a randomized control
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