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My hope is that we can use these examples as a new cultural model and, ultimately, reconnect the body and the brain. As you’ll see, they belong together.

Learning from our mistakes is profoundly important in everyday life, and Hillman’s study shows that exercise—or at least the resulting fitness levels—can have a powerful impact on that fundamental skill.

Now you know how exercise improves learning on three levels: first, it optimizes your mind-set to improve alertness, attention, and motivation; second, it prepares and encourages nerve cells to bind to one another, which is the cellular basis for logging in new information; and third, it spurs the development of new nerve cells from stem cells in t

What I recommend to my ADHD clients is, if you want to use exercise as medicine to improve your ADHD symptoms, you should work your way up to some form of aerobic activity that lasts between thirty and sixty minutes, and that puts your HRave between Zone 3 and Zone 4 (75 percent to 85 percent of HRmax).

Jump-starting the brain’s reward system benefits not just those who suffer from depression or those who have struggled with drug abuse. Our brains change as we age, and adults lose up to 13 percent of the dopamine receptors in the reward system with each passing decade.

University of Utah found that just two minutes of walking for every hour spent sitting dramatically reduced (by 33 percent) risk of early death, while a study out of the University of Cambridge found that an hour of moderate intensity exercise a day eliminated it completely.3

Acknowledge your biological excitation mode and inhibition mode, and understand that you need both regularly: exercise and recovery, adventure and relaxation. ACETYLCHOLINE Avoid toxic anticholinergic drugs. Ensure adequate dietary choline intake.