Why Strength Training Makes You Smarter and the Brain Protein Responsible for it All w/ Dr. John Ratey, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #514
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- How did fitness get linked to brain development?
- Why does intense exercise help develop intelligence?
- I strength training more optimal than cardio for brain development
- What is BDNF and how does it connect the different parts of the brain.
- How does exercise help fight ADHD, Alzheimers, Addiction, and Depression
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrugged family on today's episode of Barrel Shrugged. We have one of the coolest guests of all time. Dr. John |
| 0:07.0 | Rady who wrote the book Spark and |
| 0:10.3 | The reason this book is so cool is Coast Travis Mass sent me a link to this book |
| 0:15.0 | We talked about it a couple times on shows |
| 0:17.4 | We're talking about just brain development how movement exercise strength training all plays into building not just bigger muscles |
| 0:24.2 | But a bigger brain making you think better getting you added oppression and it's links to |
| 0:29.3 | ADHD which is incredibly |
| 0:34.5 | Important because if we can figure out a way to start dealing with mental health and emotional health |
| 0:40.5 | Through physical health |
| 0:42.6 | We're gonna be tapping into some really cool stuff in the future in overall health and how we can really start to help people |
| 0:50.0 | this |
| 0:51.6 | conversation |
| 0:52.4 | took us |
| 0:53.3 | Months to get a hold of because he's written seven or eight books. He's a professor at |
| 0:58.9 | Harvard medical school and you could say he's one of the most sought after |
| 1:05.0 | people in this industry and wrote the book on how fitness |
| 1:11.2 | transforms your brain and really just |
| 1:14.9 | Fitness and movement are the building blocks to having a brain |
| 1:19.7 | That is capable of |
| 1:22.2 | Being a high performer as well as your body being a high performer. So very cool conversation |
| 1:26.8 | We're very grateful for Dr. Rady for coming on to the podcast and talking to us |
| 1:30.8 | I can't wait for you to listen and before we get into the show |
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