Dr. Wendy Suzuki

But I love to leave people with the idea that every drop of sweat counts for building your brain into the big, fat, fluffy brain that you really want.

Yeah.

If you allow it to, it should have a beautiful effect on your mindset.

That your mindset around...

How often should I wake up 30 minutes early and do that walk before I start my day or accept the invitation to go walk the dog with a neighbor?

It's not an obligation.

It is something that you're doing for yourself.

It is going to have direct benefits on that ball of tofu, as you call it, in your head.

It's going to make it work better.

And I mean...

I think the most immediate thing that I benefit from every single day is the mood boost that you get from that serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline that gets released every time you move your body.

The basis is that immediate effect.

So there's three key effects that we know happen every time you move your body.

First one is mood.

You're going to get your dopamine, your serotonin up.

Second is focus and attention.

So a single workout isn't going to make more synapses in your prefrontal cortex, but the prefrontal cortex uses dopamine.

And so it's clear that even a single workout can make your prefrontal cortex work better in terms of focus and attention, also very important anytime you're speaking.

And the third is reaction time.

Your reaction time, you know, motor, you're working your motor cortex when you move your body, and your response and reaction time is significantly shorter after even a single workout compared to if you just don't work out and sit alone.