17 connected korrents · 11 moments from 15 Nov 2019 to 18 Sept 2026.
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To use exercise's arousal effect on cognition, include compound, multi-joint exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, pull-ups and rows.
Last stated 6 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
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Andrew Huberman
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Perhaps 60 to 70 percent of exercise's effects on brain health, performance and longevity can be explained by the rise in autonomic arousal during and after exercise.
Last stated 6 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
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Andrew Huberman
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Cardio and weights build different brains: aerobic exercise benefits the gray matter and the hippocampus, resistance training the white matter.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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Partner dancing, not puzzles, has the best evidence of any activity for improving cognitive function in older adults.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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High-intensity exercise improves hippocampal structure and function precisely because it releases a lot of cortisol, which is the opposite of the case made against hard training.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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Putting older adults into activities that are genuinely new to them improves cognitive function in randomised trials, with executive function the most reliable gain.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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Exercise is the number one thing a person can do to improve long-term physical and cognitive health.
Last stated 11 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Steve Magness
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When you exercise relative to learning probably matters little, as long as the two sit fairly close in time.
Last stated 6 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
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Andrew Huberman
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The gym can be a place to uncover changes in movement and range of motion, not only a stimulus for adaptation.
Last stated 9 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Kelly Starrett
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Same subject: dementia
About half of all dementia is preventable, and most of that preventable half is Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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Same subject: dementia
Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain
Last stated 27 May 2023 · 3 years ago
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Roy Baumeister
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Same subject: dementia
Alzheimer's disease and dementia are not the same thing: a fifth to a third of people whose brains carry the pathology never became demented.
Last stated 24 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Masud Husain
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Same subject: health and fitness
A celebrated popular science book can consistently misrepresent the literature it summarises and contradict its own sources.
Last stated 15 Nov 2019 · 7 years ago
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Alexey Guzey
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Same subject: health and fitness
A conclusion being biologically reasonable is not the same as its having been proven.
Last stated 11 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Peter Attia
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Same subject: health and fitness
A drop in heart rate variability values typically precedes the onset of noticeable sickness symptoms by about a day.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Ray Maker
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Same subject: Polyvagal theory
EFT tapping improves brain connectivity, heart rate variability, vagal tone, and reduces inflammation.
Last stated 21 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
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Arielle Schwartz
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Same subject: Polyvagal theory
Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.
Last stated 2 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Arielle Schwartz
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Same subject: Polyvagal theory
Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.
Last stated 2 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Arielle Schwartz