The Real Happy Pill

A researcher in Sweden explain how to train your brain.Run.Not muscle building, not solving puzzles.By running the functions of your brain improves, and you can live longer.That's his theory, and he is trying to explain the theory logically and scientific using the results of academic researches.Myself runs.Yet, I'm not sure if it trains my brain or not.Let's see by running further.

If you need impressive motivation backed by science to finally taking physical activity seriously (specially running), this is the book you are looking for.

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This book provided such a good overview into how the brain works.I personally could relate to quite a few of the examples and I am now really inspired to focus much more on my exercise, with my new appreciation of the benefits which are far more than fitness alone, such as improvement to my memory, concentration, stress management and so much more.I will reread again really soon!

This book shows a very clear connection between exercise and certain health issues like stress, ADHD and healthy aging of the brain. I bought it for the latter reason and found it quite useful. I did find a lot of repetition in the book. However, this is due in part to the author citing various studies showing links between exercise, usually walking or interval training, and improvements in each topic/chapter under discussion. I read it straight through but as it has a table of contents it is possible to click on the chapter you are concerned with e.g. stress and read what the author, Anders Hansen, has to say about the importance of exercise and training in coping with stress. I feel it would have been a lot shorter if he hadn't gone into so much detail for each topic but this may be what others find useful. In summary he made a very good argument for adopting a routine of regular walking as a way of improving many modern day health issues from stress to aging . I found it very heartening that something so simple could be so effective.

Exercise is the absolute best thing for ones health, and acquainting yourself with the mechanisms of its beneficial effects reinforces the motivation to go and do it!