Move the Body Heal the Mind / Joe De Sena & Jennifer Heisz, PhD

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Your brain evolved to prevent you from moving, to conserve energy, because there was a time when humans needed a lot of energy to hunt and to gather food. We don't have to do that now, but the brain is still set up to conserve energy. But if you can overcome that resistance and MOVE you unlock the most powerful medicine in mental health. This episode explains how exercise can improve focus, memory, depression, anxiety and sleep. How much exercise you need to do. And some simple recommendations to encourage the release of the chemicals your brain wants more of.

Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan is joined by Jennifer Heisz, PhD author “Move the Body, Heal the Mind” is an expert in brain health, associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab. Dr. Heisz's research examines the effects of physical activity on brain function to promote mental health and cognition.

LINKS:

More about Dr. Jennifer Heisz https://www.jenniferheisz.com/

Move the Body Heal the Mind https://amzn.to/3y9IYaz

10 Rules for Resilience, Mental Toughness for Families https://amzn.to/3FbqwQ0

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com

Host: Joe De Sena

Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, a lot of people don't realize that the brain is actually set up to prevent us from moving.
0:05.6	So if you think about the brain evolved at a time when we needed to expend a lot of energy to hunt and gather our food.
0:14.0	We don't have to do that nowadays,
0:16.0	but the brain is still set up to conserve energy.
0:19.0	And so it sees any sort of voluntary movement
0:22.0	as an extravagant expense.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast hosted by Joe Desena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race,
0:31.0	and brought to you by Wild Health.
0:33.7	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:38.6	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
0:41.7	we will teach you here on the Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles on the course. We will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast
0:44.6	to get over obstacles in your mind.
0:48.0	Get fully personalized health care
0:49.9	based on your
0:53.0	and blood work with wild health the official health care provider of Spartan
0:55.8	go to wild health-health com and use the code Spartan 10 to save 10%
1:01.1	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Athletic Brewing Company.
1:05.0	Their innovative process allows them to brew great tasting craft beer without the alcohol.
1:11.0	New customers can get 10% off their entire order
1:14.2	with the code Spartan 10, limit one per customer.
1:17.6	I got a real special one for you today.
1:20.4	Jennifer Heise, rhymes with nice, I just told, and she wrote this great book,
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