Ryan Glatt: How to Boost Brain Health Through Exercise

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are nutrition and supplement obsessed when it comes to increasing cognitive health, although exercise is at the top of the list for preventing cognitive decline, yet it's the least utilized. In this episode, guest Ryan Glatt breaks down how we can properly use exercise as a means to boost our brain health.

Ryan also does a deep dive into what the heck the brain is in the first place, how it is deeply interconnected to the rest of the systems throughout your body, how exercise affects it, how to prevent cognitive decline and depression, and many other fascinating topics in relation to neuroscience.

Ryan Glatt is a psychometrist and Brain Health Coach at the Brain Health Center in the Pacific Neuroscience Institute. With a strong background in exercise science and human health, Ryan develops curricula specifically targeted towards developing optimal brain health.

Ryan is an amazing friend with a similar background, which means we get pretty silly.

What we discuss:

3:30 - What is the brain?

4:30 - How movement affects the brain

8:00 - Micro, Macro and Behavioral effects

9:30 - The effects of exercise duration, intensity, and modality

11:40 - Bloodflow, angiogenesis, BDNF

15:00 - Forced exercise vs. voluntarily exercise

18:00 - Nutrition and cognitive health

21:50 - Skill-based exercise

23:15 - Why not all exercise should be cognitive demanding

26:00 - Motor units within the muscles

33:45 - How movement modifies our expression and personality

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:04.8	the world's leading experts in all things, health and wellness, to help you optimize your mind
0:09.8	and your body and your movement. This episode was with my home boy, Ryan, is 20-being.
0:17.1	He is a psychologist and brain health coach at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute and in this conversation we deep dive into what the
0:27.2	heck the brain is in the first place, how it is deeply interconnected with the rest of the systems throughout your body, how exercise
0:36.2	affects it, how to prevent cognitive decline, depression, all sorts of really fascinating topics in relation to neuroscience.
0:46.3	Really fun stuff, Ryan is super smart.
0:48.4	You can tell in the meeting conversations last year out the rest of it.
0:52.0	He is a good friend, known him for several years and we have similar backgrounds.
0:57.0	So we have a lot of rapport. So we get kind of goofy is what I am alluding to.
1:03.7	I hope you guys devour this conversation.
1:05.9	If you have interest in learning a little bit about how to breathe more effectively,
1:11.3	breath is one of those things that is a key to the function of your
1:16.3	autonomic nervous system, the way that you feel.
1:19.2	So if you breathe a certain way, it can ramp your nervous system up to make you feel more stimulated
1:25.1	like you drink coffee.
1:26.5	If you breathe another way, it can calm your nervous system down, help with things like sleep,
1:30.8	relaxation, digestion, things to sort.
1:33.2	If you want to learn more about that,
1:35.0	I created a little video, absolutely free for y'all.
1:39.4	It can be found at, on my Instagram. It's the link for it is in the bio, it's called the line method master class.
1:46.0	You could also find it at a line podcast.com
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