How Exercise Can Save Your Brain!

Exercise relieves depression and boosts memory by changing brain chemistry, releasing endorphins and serotonin, promoting brain cell growth, reducing inflammation, increasing blood flow, and improving sleep/stress. This will strengthen neural connections, enhance mood regulation, and build brain volume in memory/thinking areas. Good news: reasonable exercise will suffice, and in fact going macho can be counterproductive.

Dr. Richard Carlton joins us to talk about the growth factors the body produces that protect and repair neurons and how exercise stimulates the release of the growth factors. Something so important that a Nobel Prize was awarded to the scientist who discovered one of these growth factors.

Dr. Richard Carlton is an integrative psychiatrist and pioneer in the rational use of nutrition-based treatment approaches when treating “mental” issues (such as depression, anxiety, ADHD), or “physical” problems (such as cognitive impairment/dementia, PMS, migraines, and IBS). He practices in Port Washington, NY and is a member of the Sharp Again Medical Advisory Board.

You can learn more about Dr. Carlton at richardcarltonmd.com