Last night I was watching a PBS program hosted by Dr. Daniel Amen we was discussing the brain and how it can be retrained. While I don't want to get to deep into retraining the brain what I did want to talk about were some of the facts he brought up and how it will help you. Dr. Amen went on to talk about everything the brain effects from altizmers to depression and how continous learning can help prevent altizmers and proper diet can effect depression, but what was great is that all the things he talked about which was alot the number one cure for all these things was you quessed it EXERCISE 30 MIN A DAY 5-6 DAYS A WEEK!!!!
Why this made me happy was here is a guy a highly educated well respectd by his peers and he laid dowm for you EXERCISE. There were alot of things he discussed so I recommend looking up the program and seeing for yourself I thought it was great. In closing he gave a interesting satistic in a study of 24 people 12 taking zoloft which is an antidepresent and 12 just exercising after a 12 week period the result were the same, he went on to say that after another 12 weeks those who were exercising "blew the other group away" there results were so much better that's the only way he could discribe it. Think about it not only was the depression so much better,but they were healthier than the other group BONUS!!!
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I met Dr. Amen at a lecture he gave and then participated in his brain study of injured and uninjured brains. I learned a lot about the damage that can occur even from normal children's bangs to the head - the kind that happen to most kids who engage in sports.
If you are interested in the brain and how it works, I highly recommend reading ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. It's on the NY Times Bestseller list and it's a wonderful book. Dr. Taylor's talk at TED dot com is also AMAZING! Oprah interviewed Dr. Taylor and you can check that out on Oprah.com. And Time Magazine named Dr. T one of the 100 Most Influential people in the world. Having read her book, I can see why all the attention.
Dr. Amen's book is brain science and it's great at that. Dr. Taylor is a Harvard Brain Scientist, but what she writes about is the science and much more. She really cracks the code to understand how our brains (right and left hemispheres) work and she explains how we can get into our right brain and be happier and more joyful. Aside from any of the science, My Stroke of Insight is also just a great story.
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