How to Use Exercise to Improve Your Brain’s Health, Longevity & Performance

3485.839 - 3512.947 Andrew Huberman

It seems that a lot of the effects of BDNF on the brain that are caused by doing exercise and that benefit us in terms of short and long-term memory, our ability to encode new things and remember them for long periods of time, to resist age-related degeneration, because that's the case indeed, that our hippocampus decreases in volume over time as we age, just naturally, even in somebody that doesn't have Alzheimer's dementia, and exercise can adjust the slope of that decline