Jan19201010:59 a.m.
Brain cells and running...
In the paper today (Guardian) there is an article about how jogging/running can boost brain power. Running apparently stimulates the growth of thousands of new brain cells that improve recall - memory and learning!
Well if my brain cells have increased since I took up running I dread to think what state i'd be in if I didn't bloomin' run! Doesn't bare thinking about.
So there you go - experiments on some poor unsuspecting and innocent mice have demonstrated that we grow fresh grey matter as we run or jog or take any aerobic exercise. Something to do with increased blood flow or higher levels of hormones released while exercising.
Okay that's all. Gives me hope that maybe I won't go senile quite yet and made me smile. Oh and I've just run 7 miles and I'm cream crackered this morning but at least I'll have replaced some of those brain cells I killed off during all those years of alcohol abuse! Hah!
Hx
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Russell_Nimbus 'Does that make us twice as intelligent as half marathon runners then? ' added 19th Jan 2010
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fatrev 'Blimey I better get my name down for some ultras then!!' added 19th Jan 2010
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Firefly123 'Ha ha. Run a marathon and then join MENSA then! Good running. ' added 19th Jan 2010
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Johnf 'I'll raise my glass to that! Good running' added 19th Jan 2010
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onthefloor04 'That's the problem with Mice though, they do all their training on a treadmill, it's no alternative to the real thing.' added 19th Jan 2010
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Shaun 'Now that sounds interesting. Although I think my running club socials probably kill off most of the new ones...' added 19th Jan 2010
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simonedumergue 'haha - I love Russell's comment :-) Like you say, it's a scary thought to thing how forgetful I would be if I wasn't running. I'd be housebound because I wouldn't be able to remember where I put the house keys down after picking them up from their usual place and my children would always be going to school in wet jumpers because I forgot to take them out of the washing machine before going to bed... Well done on the 7 miles. That starts to become quite a challenge to fit runs over six miles in during the week. Still to do my tempo run for the day - keep pushing it out until 'later' but I'll need to face the music and do it...' added 19th Jan 2010
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Nick 'I'm not sure that running has made me any smarter. What I do know is that my short term memory has gone for a burton in recent years. I daren't put anything down or I'd never find it again.' added 19th Jan 2010
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squa25 'I read that article this morning too and thought the same. I might have severe memory issues if I weren't running. It's bad enough as it is! ' added 19th Jan 2010
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Keith_L 'So if it works on mice it must be true? Not sure i see the link but happy to go with the flow' added 19th Jan 2010
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crooxi 'So.............WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!!!! I have a load of text to learn, and it just doesn't want to go in. Obviously I'm not doing enough of it. (Running, not text.)' added 19th Jan 2010
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gravygraham 'I can just picture those mice on their treadmills in the lab with their little sweatbands and ipods. Having said that, I'd love to know how to recognise a clever mouse.' added 19th Jan 2010
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peterb 'Something wrong with me then ..going the other way ..' added 20th Jan 2010
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Account_closed 'I'm not sure about that, since I became obsessed with races I think I've dumbed down somewhat.' added 21st Jan 2010
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RuddysMarathonEffort 'Second paragraph took the words right out of my mouth but shouldn't you be talking in the past tense in paragraph 4? ...."won't go...." ' added 23rd Jan 2010
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