Shrug Family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back. Dan Garner is going to be talking about brain health. Yeah, you're going to get smarter listening to this podcast and you're going to be having the actionable steps to continually get smarter and smarter and keep your brain forever, which is a good thing. As always friends, make sure you get over to aretee lab.com, A-R-E-e-l-a-b-com that is where you can learn about the signature program inside rapid health optimization all of the labs the testing the analysis the coaching and how we get you feeling and performing better than you ever have in your entire life and you can access all of that over at Artae lab.com. Friends, let's get into the show. Welcome to Barbel Shrug. I'm Anders R. Doug Lars and Coach Travis Mashed, Dan Garner. Today on Barbell Shrug, we're going to be talking brain health. And guess what? At the end of the show, Dan Garner's going to tell you where to go get his brand new concussion protocol I'm putting that at the top of the show even though you want to talk about the end of the show so we're going to make sure we get to the concussion protocol that you and O'Malley are working on. Yo but today I want to dig in brain health is really at like the top of I think I figured out how this body works for the most part and all the questions that i have dan garner knows the answers

too so we're good there of I think I figured out how this body works for the most part and all the questions that I have

Dan Garner knows the answers too so we're good there the brain thing though my I have like some

serious family problems on the brain side of things my family goes a long time and the brain

disappears towards the end but I love to even start out just more than the long-term kind of dementia side of things

and really talk about kind of like impact of basic exercise and how brain health and

movement, training, how those things are correlated as just kind of like a high level start

to understanding brain health.

So, I mean, at the highest level, going on walks is something that is something that is something

that is already beneficial for the brain.

Like there are many complicated and nuanced conversations surrounding neutropics and micronutrients and very complicated situations in

inflammations and fatty acids.

But going on a walk, like the University of Illinois, they took, it was 126 sedentary

subjects and had them just walk three times per week.

And at the beginning of the study, they measured the size of their hippocampus,

which is the center of memory consolidation.

And then after one year of going on brisk walks three times per week,

as you age, your hippocampus actually progressively shrinks.

After one year, the hippocampus did not only not shrink it actually grew

a bit with three brisk walks per week and then at the end of this they actually came up with their

own progressive system and cutoff point to where beginning at three 10 minute walks per week and then

you add five minutes so on week one is three 10

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