Going With The Flow

The big four oh!

WOOT WOOT!!!! :) :) :)

40!! that is great.

Your recovery is coming along so nicely! You'll be destroying the field in your races again in no time. :-)

That study is interesting in that I've seen similar effects firsthand, especially that exercise can help retain information. When I was taking a university Shakespeare class a while back, I would first read the plays, then put the audio dramatizations on my ipod while I'd run. When it came time to take the final exam, one section of the test had quotes from the various plays, and when I'd read them, I could not only identify the play, I could "hear" the actors' voices and even remember where I was where I was running.

I read a similar-type study recently about how when a group of people were given a set of data to memorize, those who exercised immediately afterwards had a much higher recall ability. I'll see if I can find that study. No wonder so many of the runners I know are so smart!

40 miles :) Stoke!!!

40 miles! Now that's what I call progress! Excellent job.

Congrats in the progress and great find. I wish more people would follow it. The science is behind it as well. The protein I study is induced in the brain (as well as muscle and heart) following exercise. This same protein increases mitochondrial content. So excersice is literally fueling the brain.

Adam - I'm expecting a supplement to induce that protein in the next year from you! Then no one has to exercise again! :)

Someone beat me to the punch and did one better. At the meeting last week there was a talk that a protein excreted from the heart can make fat mice thin. That person also has a treatment that can be modified from another FDA approved delivery to regulate this pathway. So it may be sooner than we think. Then again each of the last three years there has been a similar claim. For now I say we all keep exercising...