Dr. Giulia Enders

And especially also the change in temperature as we see in sauna, for example, and then just coming back with nothing bad happening has an effect that is calming.

And so it's not only sports sometimes that can do this.

When you do breathing exercises where you breathe really fast for a while and then you breathe really slow, it's also in a way the same thing.

You change the pH value in your blood and this is stressful for the body and weird,

But then you just go back to normal.

And so in a way you tell your body, you know, I can do this.

And then the other aspect is sports and exercise really influencing your brain chemistry.

So you see different receptors being expressed, different way of handling some transmitters after sports.

Just, you know, the brain is so isolated up there when it gets really into contact and really has to deal with reality and the muscles and actually do movements that work.

Otherwise you drop the cup if you don't hold it right.

It's sort of like a good thing to get out there.

into the real world for the brain it has this effect of like lifting heavy things when you're stressed people like in in the army are being trained when they have a really stressful situations to that they couldn't really process in the moment to like calm down to like lift something heavy or just hold something heavy or do breathing exercises to really get into the body and connect the brain with the physical reality to calm down and not by just laying down or doing nothing

You're describing this positive impact for my body and my immune system.

Is there particular types of exercise that are going to be much more effective than others?

Well, what we see is that the different types of exercises have different effects.

So now strength training is all the rage and people talk about it all the time.

And this has a good reason for it because when we built a lot of muscle, they can regulate our blood sugar level, for example, better.

And it has also more measurable effects on, as I said, like brain receptors being expressed when you do strength training.

When you do other like aerobic exercises, durational like jogging for a half an hour or longer, and you would be able to talk while you're doing this.

This is other exercises.