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
