Category: Exercise and cognition
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Add a mental task to an exercise to improve brain health
by Jay Hiller, November 27, 2022 Photo by Priyanka Singh on Unsplash Years ago, when I did a lot of long endurance runs, I found that a lot of the endurance involved dealing with boredom. I would entertain myself by picking out random numbers and figuring out their square roots. Little did I know that…
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Exercise is good for your brain
by Jay Hiller, September 20, 2022 On the way home from the hairdresser’s I listened to the first 20 minutes of episode 226 of The Proof podcast with Simon Hill. His guests were Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai and the topic was the benefits of exercise on cognition. It was an interesting podcast for me…