Friday Series - Week 7 of 13 – Wendy Suzuki’s TED Talks on The brain-changing benefits of exercise!

Click here for full transcripts of the speech. இந்த YouTube channel லை வாழ வைக்கும் தெய்வங்களாகிய எல்லா ஹீரோயின்களுக்கும், ஹீரோக்களுக்கும் வணக்கம். Today's topic is bringing alertness and energy in our day today activities. I found a TED talk very interesting. The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki - 8,359,449 views https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuk... About the Speaker - Wendy Suzuki – Professor of Neuroscience, Neuroscientist, author Wendy Suzuki is researching the science behind the extraordinary, life-changing effects that physical activity can have on the most important orgain in your body: your brain. What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Lessons learnt from TED Talks • The powerful effects of physical activity - Simply moving your body, have immediate, long-lasting and protective benefits for your brain. And that can last for the rest of your life. • She discovered the science underlying why exercise is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today. • The thing in our head right now, that is the most complex structure known to humankind. • The first is the prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead, critical for things like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality. • You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability to form and retain new long-term memories for facts and events. And that structure is called the hippocampus. • She discovered and I experienced the brain-changing effects of exercise. • Exercises have this great mood boost and this great energy boost. • Well, she started feeling stronger. She started feeling better, She even lost that 25 pounds. • Have a regular exercise program. • She was able to focus and maintain her attention for longer than she had before. And her long-term memory -- what she was studying in her own lab -- seemed to be better in her. • Regular exercise gives better mood, better energy, better memory, better attention. • Exercise is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today for the following three reasons. 1. Number one: it has immediate effects on your brain. A single workout that you do will immediately increase levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. That is going to increase your mood right after that workout. 2. Number two: the most common finding in neuroscience studies, looking at effects of long-term exercise, is improved attention function dependent on your prefrontal cortex. You not only get better focus and attention, but the volume of the hippocampus increases as well. And finally, you not only get immediate effects of mood with exercise but those last for a long time. So you get long-lasting increases in those good mood neurotransmitters. So with increased exercise over your lifetime, you're not going to cure dementia or Alzheimer's disease, but what you're going to do is you're going to create the strongest, biggest hippocampus and prefrontal cortex so it takes longer for these diseases to actually have an effect. You can think of exercise, therefore, as a supercharged 401K/PF for your brain, OK? And it's even better, because it's free. The rule of thumb is you want to get three to four times a week exercise minimum 30 minutes an exercise session, and you want to get aerobic exercise in. That is, get your heart rate up. And the good news is, you don't have to go to the gym to get a very expensive gym membership. Add an extra walk around the block in your power walk. You see stairs -- take stairs. And power-vacuuming can be as good as the aerobics class that you were going to take at the gym. 3. She want to leave you with one last thought. And that is, bringing exercise in your life will not only give you a happier, more protective life today, but it will protect your brain from incurable diseases. And in this way it will change the trajectory of your life for the better. Please share your suggestions, feedback in practicing this. If you want to maintain anonymity, Please share your suggestions, feedback, and comments to [email protected] Tagline:. Move your body Reference:- Today’s video The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki - 8,359,449 views https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuk... High energy 1 min exercise    • Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing bene...   About me:- EP-0 - Who am I? - Rajesh Narayanan If you do not know me personally, you can check out this video    • EP-0 - Who am I? - Rajesh Narayanan