How exercise helps us to become smarter

Great news for all fans of racing, dancing, aerobic exercise, and even simple walking! Recent research scientists have shown that to be smart, you need not only to learn and to train your brain, but also add to this occupation run at least a few times a week. You will not only be healthier and slimmer, but also smarter.

The first results depending intellectual development and physical activity were obtained during experiments on rats. The essence of the experiment was that the experimental animals were divided into four groups with different living conditions. In the first group there were toys and wheels for racing. The second were toys, but there were no wheels for running. A third was not bright toys or wheels for running. And at last it was only the wheel for running and some simple toys.

Before the start of the experiment with rats conducted a series of tests on intelligence. After completion of the experiments with these same rats were carried out exactly the same tests and the results showed that the highest rate was in those rats in which cells have virtually no toys, but it was wheel running.

Sport is one of the elements that enhance brain activity.

That is a large number of beautiful and colorful toys that help develop tactile and gustatory feeling and the sense of smell and hearing, does not affect the brain activity as well as physical exercises. But these experiments relate only to animals.

It used to be that a person is born with a certain number of neurons, and their number remains unchanged until the end of life. Recent studies have shown that new brain cells in still form, and most of them are born in hippocampus - parts of the brain that is responsible for the formation of emotions and short-term memory into long-term transition. In the same section of brain was observed the formation of new cells in rats and mice which ran in the wheel.

But this does not mean that if you start actively running, you will become a lot smarter. The new cells that are formed as a result of physical activity, are nevovlechonnymi in common neural network and, in fact, are empty. In order for the cell began to function fully, to charging for the body and need to add more exercises for the mind.

Furthermore, neurons derived using physical activity, are more agile and multitasking. While some cells are given to us from birth, are often responsible for some one mechanism.

In addition, it was found that new neurons are born only through a specific type of load. With two groups of older persons was carried out another experiment. One group was engaged in walking, and the second - stretching. As a result, those who engaged in stretching, continued to regress under the standard scheme. Those who engaged in walking, literally rejuvenate your brain. 65-year-old reached the level of brain activity, which is standard for 63 years. That is, their brains "younger" for two years.

You are more likely to be smarter than their colleagues, if you run at least a few times a week, attend dance or aerobic classes, or make daily walks.

Of course, these mechanisms have not yet been studied until the end and did not take into account even a huge number of other factors that affect the state of our brain throughout life. But the fact that sport is one of the elements that enhance brain activity, no doubt. To do this, simply compare those who combine an active lifestyle with intellectual work, with those who do not unstuck from chairs and monitors.

It seems to me that the motivation "to play sports and become smarter," some people will work much better than a promise slimness or muscularity;)