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Exercise Is Great for Our Brains, Too, Right?

One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada. The post Exercise Is Great for Our Brains, Too, Right? appeared first on Nautilus.

One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada, where he studies how the brain works under physical exertion.

Photo courtesy of Luis Ciria

Exercise is great for our brains too, right?

robably not. At the beginning of our experiments about a decade ago, we believed that this idea, this hypothesis, was straightforward: that exercise must improve your brain because you improve the rest

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