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Walking is a Brain Exercise
Clip: Episode 29 | 2m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Bryant Stamford discusses how walking is a brain exercise.
Dr. Bryant Stamford, professor of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College, discusses how walking is a brain exercise.
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Walking is a Brain Exercise
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Dr. Bryant Stamford, professor of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College, discusses how walking is a brain exercise.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWalking isn't going to make you smarter.
It's going to keep your brain alive and active in such a way that you don't deteriorate.
Okay.
That's the key.
You don't want the brain to deteriorate and you sure don't want the brain going into Alzheimer's.
Walking is going to do two things.
The one thing we talked about was helps those connections.
The other thing is, and I'm talking now about a brisk walk.
I'm not talking about walking around the house, just slovenly.
I'm talking about purposely going out and taking a brisk walk.
Okay.
When you do that, you increase blood flow to the brain.
And in the past, the thinking was that the brain is so important that the blood flow to the brain is always going to be constant no matter what you do.
Okay.
So if I start to exercise, although I'm going to have much more blood flow going into the legs, okay?
And I'm going to basically circulate it into the legs.
So it's got to come from somewhere.
So I shut down blood flow temporarily into the liver and the kidneys and so forth to support the exercise.
But in the brain, it's always constant.
Now, with recent research and the sophistication of how we measure things, we realize that exercise promotes more blood flow to the brain.
Which was surprising.
It promotes more blood flow to the brain, which pays huge dividends in lots of ways, for example.
One of the things I'm discovering is that with Alzheimer's, the big problem there is, again, we're losing the connection.
So there's amyloid mass.
These these very sticky proteins that are manufactured with age for reasons we don't know.
I mean, there's a lot we don't know.
But these amyloid bodies are actually gumming up the works in there.
And what we know is that exercise that promotes blood flow helps to prevent the buildup of this amyloid mass.
So it's a key factor in terms of preventing Alzheimer's.
Then on top of that, with all the connections that you have with the walking, it's it's the magic key.
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