Exercise and Fitness

Maintaining an active lifestyle and exercising is essential for overall health and well-being. This is especially true for those in recovery. This should come as no surprise to anyone reading this article. Why then, do so many people struggle to make time to exercise?

There are many amazing benefits to regular exercise. Weight loss, cardiovascular health, a reduction in the risk of developing diabetes to name but a few. Recent research indicates that perhaps the greatest health benefits of exercise may actually take place inside our minds.

This is how Dr. Wendy Suzuki begins her talk on the power of exercise as a prophylactic to all manner of brain disease and disorder. Dr. Suzuki, who had been a neuroscientist focused on memory changed the entire course of her research when she inadvertently began doing exercise research on herself.