PART 5

Physical Exercises that Protect Your Brain

1. What part of the brain is key for memory?

2. Tell me about the research at Columbia University where they invited a group of out-of-shape volunteers to start an exercise program. What did they find? (pg 102)

3. What about the researchers at the University of Illinois what did they find when they recruited 59 adults over age 64 exercise program?

4. So does this mean that exercise might actually protect us against memory problems as we get older?

5. How does it work?

6. What is Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)? How does it work in the brain?

7. Is there a relationship between BDNF and Alzheimer's disease?

8. So do you have any suggestions for starting an exercise program?

9. So how do we find our target zone?

10. What are three essentials to a successful exercise program?
a. make it social
b. schedule it
c. keep it regular

11. What types of exercise should we be focusing on? Is there one that we should do more than others?
a. aerobic exercise
b. resistance exercise
c. flexibility exercise

12. What if someone in our audience out there can't exercise?

13. What are some extra benefits of exercise?
a. helps you lose weight
b. it improves cardiac fitness, reduces blood pressure, boosts HDL and trim's triglycerides
c. Women have less risk of developing breast cancer

14. What are some of the psychological benefits of exercising?
a. helps you sleep better - which helps prevent Alzheimer's disease
b. it is a natural antidepressant

15. You made a key point, that is essential to exercise along with a healthy diet, not in place of it. Would you expand on this?

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