Daily exercise not only improves physical health; it improves brain health too. The benefits of exercise include:

  • Increasing endorphins and serotonin, chemicals that improve mood
  • Reduces stress
  • Decreases anxiety and depression
  • Aids in mental health and substance abuse recovery
  • Improves sleep, which is also important for brain health
  • Can reduce isolation if you get out to exercise
  • Increase one’s sense of accomplishment which can help prevent depression
  • Increases the hippocampus, which improves memory
  • Pumps blood to the brain, which can help you think more clearly
  • Increases the connections between nerve cells in the brain, which improves memory and helps protect against brain injury and disease

Source: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/exercise-and-mental-health

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