John Ratey Professions : AuthorBorn : April 7, 1948 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by John Ratey It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes. John Ratey playbrainmoving Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning. John Ratey exercisebrainmemories Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being. John Ratey exercisebrainfeelings Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems. John Ratey impactpowerfulexercise If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it. John Ratey focusexercisemorning At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are. John Ratey stresswineexercise Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain. John Ratey activityminutesbrain We can know ourselves only because we can remember. John Ratey chaosknowsremember When you exercise, you turn on the attention systems, so that means you're( paying) better attention, you're able to deal with more frustration, you're able to stay with it longer, you're able to manipulate information by turning... on the front part of our brain to make it work better, and that's really key and important in terms of taking in information as well as performing with it. John Ratey top-news When you move, you stimulate all the nerve cells that we use to think with, and when you stimulate those nerve cells, it gets them ready to do stuff. John Ratey top-news Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
