{"id":1020,"date":"2022-03-03T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/another-reason-why-you-should-exercise-it-helps-your-brain\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:48:18","slug":"exercise-for-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/exercise-for-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason why you should exercise: It helps your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3643-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3643-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Another reason why you should exercise: It helps your brain\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  David Raichlen\u2019s research looks at the effects of a range of human movement, such as squatting and kneeling and strenuous physical activity. (Photo: Courtesy of David Raichlen.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Another reason why you should exercise: It helps your brain<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Evolutionary biologist David Raichlen of USC Dornsife talks about how our brains developed when we began moving long distances and the \u201crunner\u2019s high.\u201d <strong>[2\u00be min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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the links between brain and physical health motivates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/bisc\/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1086183\">David Raichlen<\/a>, professor of biological sciences and anthropology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. His research into human movement spans a broad range of activities, from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/166572\/squatting-kneeling-health-sitting-usc-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-term benefits of squatting and kneeling<\/a>\u00a0to how your body rewards strenuous physical activity to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/3598\/pollution-hinders-exercise-benefits\/\">effects of exercising in highly polluted areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raichlen recently spoke about his research, and why he\u2019s grumpy when he doesn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is fitness so important?<\/h2>\n<p>At this point, I think most people know that physical activity is important for their health. The key question now is how do you get people to change their behavior? From an evolutionary perspective, I\u2019m focused on why physical activity makes some people feel good and that \u2026 comes from my experience. I wanted to figure out why I felt so much better when I worked out and why I wasn\u2019t very pleasant on days that I didn\u2019t exercise.<\/p>\n<h2>Something like endorphins and the \u2018runner\u2019s high\u2019?<\/h2>\n<p>Exactly. Only what we found out was that it\u2019s also tied to a reward system in the body called the endocannabinoid system. It\u2019s like our body\u2019s endogenous form of marijuana. Over a series of projects, we looked at endocannabinoid signaling in humans, dogs and ferrets while they ran. It turns out that while ferrets \u2014 which don\u2019t generally engage in endurance activity \u2014 didn\u2019t show much activity, humans and dogs did, suggesting perhaps evolutionary processes at work. That led to further projects where we found that the endocannabinoid system may have developed to encourage and reduce pain during physical activity and may even play a role in the cognitive benefits of exercise.<\/p>\n<h2>What else have you learned about how exercise benefits humans?<\/h2>\n<p>The whole point of our work at this point is taking our evolutionary history and applying it to the massive health problems we\u2019re dealing with today. Two million years ago, we evolved and adopted a hunting and gathering lifestyle which required our ancestors to start being much more physically active to forage. While we engaged in physically active foraging, we also were navigating and doing other cognitive tasks utilizing executive functions and memory \u2014 remembering where to find certain foods and making decisions while on the move, things like that.<\/p>\n<p>We think the evolution of these foraging behaviors linked high levels of physical activity with cognitive needs and may explain why physical activity is so good for brain health. So, the concurrent evolution of high physical activity and cognitive function became a fertile ground for us to start thinking about how we can actually enhance the impact of physical activity on health today.<\/p>\n<h2>What are the best exercises for cognitive health?<\/h2>\n<p>That is absolutely the question I get asked the most and unfortunately, it\u2019s a question I don\u2019t have a great answer for. In terms of the kind of activities available to people right now, there\u2019s not been a good comparative work. However, we\u2019ve produced a game that you can play while you\u2019re on an exercise bike that\u2019s includes a maze and other cognitive challenges.<\/p>\n<p>We showed for that task, there was an enhanced effect of exercising while playing the game versus just exercising alone. There have also been metanalyses that show that simultaneous exercise and gaming lead to better results than just exercise alone. Unfortunately, most of those games aren\u2019t available to the public right now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/197259\/another-reason-why-you-should-exercise-it-helps-your-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>See USC News for the full story &gt;&gt;<\/i><\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n    \n                  <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/a-diet-that-mimics-fasting-may-reverse-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >A diet that mimics fasting may reverse Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n 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