High Intensity Exercise Significantly Enhances Learning Power

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman

A new study published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory reveals that intense intervals of exercise including weight training, in which the maximum aerobic potential is met, will consistently boost brain power. For example, it was found that two 3-minute sprints spaced 2 minutes apart to the point of maximum yields a 20% faster vocabulary learning. This phenominon has been observed by a variety of researchers and will be the subject of my next several blogs, as the research appears significant in terms of body metabolism and intense exercise. The next grouping of blogs will be about inflammation in the human body and the search for nutrients and therapeutics to control and reduce inflammation, which is thought to have potential for treatment of several diseases including cancer and neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease