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Fitness

Fitness encompasses physical strength, endurance, flexibility, and overall well-being, leading to a healthier, more energetic, and balanced lifestyle. It is important to have an exercise routine and stick with it throughout each week of your life. Staying consistent in exercise ensures a healthier and happier life. Here at Simple Medicine we will teach you about the importance of exercise and how to incorporate a workout regimen into your daily and weekly routine for life. 

Physical Activity & Mental Health

  • Exercise eases the symptoms of depression and anxiety

  • Exercise can improve your sense of control, coping ability, and self-esteem

  • Regular exercise releases natural brain chemicals of endorphins that can improve your sense of well-being

  • Physical Activity is an activity that works your muscles and requires energy and can include work, household or leisure activities

  • Any physical activity can boost your mood

  • Exercise is planned, structured, and repetitive body movement

  • Exercise can boost your mood, concentration, and alertness

  • Exercise increases the levels of endocannabinoids in the bloodstream

  • Endocannabinoids can move easily through the cellular barrier separating the bloodstream from the brain here the mood-improving neuromodulators promote short-term psychoactive effects such as reduced anxiety and feelings of calm

  • Regular cardiovascular exercise can spark growth of new blood vessels to nourish the brain

  • Exercise may also produce new brain cells in certain locations through neurogenesis which may lead to an overall improvement in brain performance and prevent cognitive decline

  • The hippocampus has been found to increase in volume in the brains of regular exercises

  • Sources: Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins Medicine

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