FACT-CHECKING YOUR LIFE

The Exercise Effect on Mental Health, Neurobiological Mechanisms, edited by Henning Budde and Mirko Wegner, Routledge (Taylor & Francis) 2018

Fact-checking your life - do my food habits build fat or muscle?  do my thoughts control my stress?  can happy thoughts really improve my tennis game?  can the brain block bad people, bad noise?  

If you are thinking that your brain chemistry is a big unknown that maybe controls how you feel, your sleep, maybe even how you move, then this hefty resource from a professor of sports science and a professor of sport psychology, will be a great source of new ideas.   Take a look at these section titles from various experts gathered by the authors:

Section 1 - The Benefits of Exercise - a Theoretical Introduction (Mechanisms) - covers common mental challenges, neurobiological changes in the benefits of exercise, connections between exercise, personality and mental health, treating depression with exercise;

Section 2 - Age-Related Effects of Exercise on Mental Health - including exercise effect on children and adolescents, and a separate section on older adults; 

Section 3 - Exercise Effects on Cognition and Motor Learning - can we recover lost cognition and motor learning with exercise, and which ones work when?

Section 4 - Sport vs. Exercise and Their Effects on Emotions and Psychological Diseases - how can exercise aid addiction treatment, anxiety and stress, ADHD and which types of movement count as healing exercise?

Section 5 - Implications for the Health Sector and School - exercise as a new prescription, and as a powerful preventive resource.

Doctors, hospitals, pills, surgeries, expensive and iffy.

Movement - restorative  yoga, aquatics, tennis drills, cardio, bikes - smiles, immediate, cheap.