(Dr Leonard Coldwell) Aside from skills and supplies, your physical fitness is crucial to your survival when SHTF. No matter how much food and ammo you have in your stockpile, you won’t survive that long in a post-SHTF world if you’re not healthy. (h/t to PreppersWill.com)
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Essential Health Benefits of Exercising – How to Build Those Muscles?
(Natural Blaze) If you are a bodybuilder and want to improve your looks, tone, strengthen, and stabilize your body, you should be careful to avoid mistakes that could cause injuries that might keep you out of the game for months. Be patient, start with the basics, and move further.
Study Shows 5-10 Minutes of Low-Intensity Running Can Help Reduce Risk of Premature Death
(Mary Villareal) Running has been a popular form of exercise since the 1970s, and for good reason. Research shows that running even just once a week is enough for you to enjoy its benefits. In fact, a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that any amount of running could decrease your risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Exercise Improves Health Through Changes to DNA
(Neuroscience News) Exercise rewires the enhancers in DNA regions associated with the risk of disease development.
Brain Benefits of Yoga Comparable to Aerobic Exercise
(Natural Blaze) Think you need to pound the pavement in order to obtain the brain-boosting benefits of exercise? Studies show yoga may be just as good as aerobics when it comes to maintaining a healthy brain.
Two Boys Drop Dead While Wearing Face Masks During Gym Class
(Arjun Walia) Multiple media outlets are reporting that two Chinese boys dropped dead within one week of each other wearing face masks during gym class. Both of the students were 14 years old and were running laps for a physical examination test when they suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness during their run.
Study: Exercising With Mask Induces a “Hypercapnic Hypoxia Environment” – Not Good
(Arjun Walia) A recent study published in the Journal Medical Hypothesis titled “Exercise with facemask; Are we handling a devil’s sword? – A physiological hypothesis” claims the following:
Science: Music and Exercise – A Great Pair
(Exploring Your Mind) Thanks to the analysis of 139 available studies, today, we can affirm that music can improve exercise by optimizing performance, delaying the feeling of tiredness, and making physical activity a lot more enjoyable.
Study: Sitting Still Linked to Increased Risk of Depression in Adolescents
(UCL) Too much time sitting still – sedentary behavior – is linked to an increased risk of depressive symptoms in adolescents, finds a new UCL-led study.
Study Suggests That Individuals with Anxiety and Depression Can Manage Their Symptoms Using Breathing Exercises and Yoga
(Edsel Cook) Anxious and depressed? Massachusetts-based researchers suggest taking up breathing exercises or yoga sessions to ease your symptoms. The two practices appear to improve mood by stimulating the vagus nerves and increasing the levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an essential neurotransmitter in the brain.
Regrow Your Brain: Seven Ways to Grow New Neurons at Any Age
(Exploring Your Mind) A lot of people think that we lose neurons as we age and that there’s nothing we can do to stop it or any way to get them back. However, that’s not entirely true because we actually can grow new neurons.
7 Easy Exercises and Stretches to Stop Foot Pain for Good
(Melissa Smith) Do you feel an intense pain near your heel, that runs along the entire arch of your foot? Is it worse in the morning and gradually gets a little better throughout the day but never completely goes away? You may be experiencing plantar fasciitis.
Depressed? Don’t Pop a Pill – Just MOVE
(Melissa Smith) It turns out that not only can exercise make you fit, it can also help relieve depression. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital(MGH) discovered that even a small amount of physical activity, such as jogging for 15 minutes every day, can make a difference.
Exercise, Memory and Learning Linked by Science: A Short Bout of Exercise Enhances Brain Function
(Science Daily) Neuroscientists, working with mice, have discovered that a short burst of exercise directly boosts the function of a gene that increases connections between neurons in the hippocampus, the region of the brain associated with learning and memory.
Binge Watching TV Increases Heart Health Risks More Than a Desk Job, Study Finds
(Justin Deschamps) Humans are not meant to sit around for long hours during the day. We’re physical creatures meant to be in constant contact with our environment. We’re meant to be in nature, touch the soil with our naked skin, feel the warm breeze on our sun-touched flesh, and run about like gleeful children under the open sky. Of course, this is a bit fanciful, but it’s an obvious truth most people agree with at some level. Is it any wonder that binge-watching TV shows have negative health effects?