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If this is true, why are jocks commonly viewed as unintelligent?
Stereotypes aren't always accurate.
Also, Ivy League schools recruit heavily based on athletics, but they still hold their recruits to high academic standards.
This is exactly the message we are trying to get across at Gyroscope. https://gyrosco.pe/myusuf3/2016/6/27/ As you can see, me there playing sports that evening, super exciting and really keeps me focused. Granted hard to take me seriously, but we have some users like Tatiana have done some amazing stuff https://blog.gyrosco.pe/tatiana-b68f863333f9#.s6ugu6g65
well im surprised to be the first person in this thread to ask this question (if i am not mistaken) but what about supplementing the protein instead of working out?
One example would be Resveratrol, that mimics caloric restriction. For exercise, the challenge seems to be quite hard (http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2015/10/02/exercise-i...), but there can be seen some progress in animal models (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...).
There is a strange dichotomy here... I do believe that exercise helps thinking, but when I was growing up, very few of the smarter people were involved in sports, either formally or informally. Perhaps 1 in 20 was on a team, and few were that active otherwise. The link to drama and music was much bigger.
There is a strange dichotomy here... I do believe that exercise helps thinking, but when I was growing up, very few of the smarter people were involved in sports, either formally or informally. Perhaps 1 in 20 was on a team, and few were that active otherwise. The link to drama and music was much bigger.
"Brain health," as it's used in this article, would also contribute to coordination, muscle control, and various other things that would benefit athletes in ways that are totally opaque to you or me.
The article doesn't say exercise makes you smarter, and even if it did, "smarter" is an awfully vague term.
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Prehistoric humans likely exercised as a matter of course. They weren't sedentary. The brain evolved assuming the condition of exercise. naturally occurring byproducts of exercise were just always there for the brain to use.
You are assuming Hunter/Gatherers expend more energy than modern humans, which is not true ( http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... ) Physical activity levels were also within a standard deviation of one another (between western and h/g populations). The brain evolved in similar conditions to modern man. I would argue current conditions are far better for the brain in terms of good nutrition…
As far as exercise goes, maybe one standard deviation is enough to produce a brain effect. And maybe there is a lot of variation within modern populations, with many far enough below the average to have a significant effect.
I find it really hard to believe that any healthy Hunter/Gatherers sit around all day like so many moderns do.
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Prehistoric humans likely exercised as a matter of course. They weren't sedentary. The brain evolved assuming the condition of exercise. naturally occurring byproducts of exercise were just always there for the brain to use.
You are assuming Hunter/Gatherers expend more energy than modern humans, which is not true ( http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... ) Physical activity levels were also within a standard deviation of one another (between western and h/g populations). The brain evolved in similar conditions to modern man. I would argue current conditions are far better for the brain in terms of good nutrition…
That's an even more fascinating idea; so what other things could create the conditions for other repair systems to be activated. Maybe meditation, maybe different drugs, plants, ketosis etc...