Daniel Corcos Lecture “Exercise and the Brain”
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Daniel Corcos, a professor at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine, is a motor systems neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to understanding how different brain regions control movement. Dr. Corcos will address how both resistance exercise and endurance exercise are important for improving brain health, and how exercise affects brain volume as well as other measures of brain structure and function in health and disease. He is currently studying how progressive resistance exercise improves the motor and non-motor systems of people with Parkinson’s disease, and how endurance exercise changes disease severity in Parkinson’s disease. 2016-17 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series - Move for Life: The Health Benefits of Exercise Across the Lifespan
Four years ago I was consigned bedbound to a care home for “end of life care”! Diagnosis Parkinson’s disease and demyelination. Medical support was non existant so I did my own research and started an (initially in bed) exercise regime. Taught myself to walk again and walked up and down the corridors every day. Improvement started within a couple of weeks and all symptoms disappeared in a few more. I came home after a couple of months. I continued regular walking as a matter of habit.
Then came covid-19. So in Feb 2020 I made my plans. So I did some pertinent courses and identified a local route with the fewest number of people and simply walk it briskly every day. About 5 miles - about 35 to 40 miles a week. I manage the magic 150 mins in a week in less than 2 days and do the same for the next 5! Everything I measure is ideal - BMI 22.7 BP 117/72, Rest heart rate mid 53 bpm or so. Blood oxygen 95-99%. And the odd thing is this is not particularly difficult - I don’t generally slow down on the hills. But I am 77. But getting a nice tan and fitbit sent me a certificate saying “congratulations - you have walked the length of Africa!”
That's really impressive👏
Exercise: biking, swimming, weight lifting. Walking! Spinning! I enjoy all these. They all enable me to fully takebcare of myself and to do much of my own yard work. At 74, I substitute teach in a high school 5 minutes from my home. No medications. I feel better than I did at 30. I am training for a75 mile bike ride on my 75th birthday. I am pleased that I have been told by many that I inspire them. I thank God every day for life and loving movement. I am a very blessed woman. Enjoying life is what I have a choice to do daily.
Exercise without machines
Truly exercise is very good. Yesterday is my 6th months anniversary doing daily exercise aerobic, dumbbell exercises. The improvements are so evident not to mention my body is looking fwd to it, not using machines just video exercises.
Thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. But, it would have been far better if we could have seen the speaker as well as slides.
Proper nutrition and exercise are the best kept secrets in modern society. Thank you for the lecture.
My wife and I are 70 and go to the gym regularly and also cycle a lot..we have arthritic,pain and take some meds but exercise has completely given us less depression and we sleep very well and look forward to the gym visits ..sad we re oldest in the gym by 35 to 40 years. There’s only one guy older,out of 400,members..he’s 79. The seventies can be the teenage years if you are determined
I am an alumni graduated in 1993 doctoral program in human development and family studies
I like those music I used to listen to when I’m young, makes me really get up and motivated to dance. I think familiarity is a factor reminder of good and happy memories.
Great!
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One of the best ever lectures i've listened to .He's also so inspirational .
Hi CKD is not on the lists doc.
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Exercise is great and this guy is right about it. However, it’s amazing and sad that he spent this much time studying Parkinson’s and the brain and hasn’t been taught that diet is by far the main cause of most disease. If everyone would eat a raw diet of fresh fruit and vegetables most diseases would literally almost disappear. If you want to know more read 80/10/10! by Doug Graham or go watch videos by John Rose, Raw Vegan Rising pr Tanny Raw.
How do you know diet is more important?