Top 3 Reasons To Exercise Regularly

why you should exercise regularly stay tuned and I'll explain hey I'm Dr. Sten

Ekberg with wellness for life and if you would like to master true health then

hit that subscribe button so you can stay tuned why should you exercise

regularly you've probably heard hundreds of

different reasons from counteracting depression and anxiety to losing weight

and getting fit and sleeping better and so forth and those are all true but it

all boils down to three things the number one reason that you should

exercise regularly is that it activates your brain that's it that's the number

one reason so your brain is just like any other body part any other organ use

it or lose it if you don't work out a muscle it's get floppy and atrophied if

you don't activate your brain then it shrinks and loses vitality and energy

and strength and exercise is the number one way to activate your brain most of

the other health benefits is a consequence of you activating your brain

so that your brain works better there's something called proprioception

that's the brain's ability to know where the body parts are and what they're

doing so proprioception is information from the body that tells the brain

what's going on and movement accounts for 90% of all that proprioception when

you exercise when you move it's not necessary so much that you get tired or

that you have pain or that you exhaust yourself every time but you want to do

something that involves a lot of movement a lot of complex movement a

very popular one is walking and that's a great form of exercise but in terms of

complexity it doesn't provide a whole lot of challenge for the brain it's

pretty easy to walk the brain kind of gets into a pattern and it's the same

after you get the pattern it's over and over

and there's nothing wrong with that but if you can add some complexity then

it's more challenging for the brain and it has to rewire itself with more

combinations and and more variable if you like to dance if you like to do some

kind of sport like tennis or badminton or racquetball or something a little

more complex then you provide more proprioception jumping rope is great

lots and lots of different ways so there's the number one way they've even

found that kids who ran a mile in the morning they improved their grades by at

least one letter on average people with depression get significantly less

depression simply by exercising so it's very very powerful and that's again the

number one way why you should exercise is that it activates your brain

the second reason you should exercise is that it changes hormone levels and the

number one hormone that you want to activate with exercise is growth hormone

and the number one hormone that you want to reduce as a consequence of exercise

is insulin then there's lots of other hormones but these two hormones really

sort of override most of the others so when you exercise you make your body

more sensitive to insulin your cells have an easier time opening up and

allowing that glucose in your receptors become more sensitive so you will reduce

insulin resistance and insulin resistance is maybe the number one

health challenge that we have in this country today probably more than 50% of

the whole population has some significant degree of insulin resistance

and exercise is the single most powerful way to reduce insulin resistance of

course the other one being eating right which we'll cover in another video the

other hormone that were interested in is growth hormone human growth hormone and

is an anti-aging hormone it's a rejuvenating hormone it's a fitness

hormone they sometimes give it to geriatric patients because it helps them

their vitality it brings them back to life well you don't have to take it

externally you just need to exercise and we'll do a separate video to talk about

the specifics on how to activate it but basically the best way to activate human

growth hormone is high-intensity exercise another benefit of human growth

hormone is that it's a fat burning hormone so if you'd like to lose that

weight if you'd like to increase your metabolism then increasing growth

hormone is the way to go another thing growth hormone does is it

increases what's called a toff adji meaning it's a clean up function in the

body so when you're starving or when you have high intensity exercise then you

increase the growth hormone and when you're starving the body gets better and

recycling dead cells and waste products you you get a better functioning cleanup

crew on the inside with more growth hormone so those are the top two reasons

why you should exercise regularly and the vast majority of health benefits

come from those two factors and the third one is that you get more fit the

third reason you should exercise regularly is that it increases your

fitness level and that's sort of a no-brainer use it or lose it the more

fit you get the stronger your heart is the better your muscles are working the

easier it is to get through your daily life the easier it is to bend down and

pick things up the easier it is to walk across the parking lot and to climb the

stairs and so forth and just like everything else you want to maintain all

of your cells in perfect vitality so that counts for all your organs your

brain your heart your muscles and so forth those are the top three reasons

why you should exercise regularly all other health benefits are pretty much a

of improving those three factors so we'll have some more videos for you

coming up shortly on a little more detail on each of those three areas some

areas might even be more than one video will go into exercise a little bit more

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