The Proof is In the Neurons

I love these studies. 

But you knew that. The latest article that was passed along to me tells me that Exercise Makes You Less Anxious. Yeah, yeah, okay, we all knew that. If you are really needing to know 'how this happens' read the article.

I, for one, am fascinated with the more simplistic questions. The scientists had 2 sets of rats. One half of the rat group were allowed to run, the other group not only didn't run, they did not do any exercise. The experiment continues with having all of the rats swim in cold water, which they don't like to do (the rats not the scientists). 

All I pictured was half of the rats wearing little red bathing caps to differentiate them from the half who were the runners. That, or they let the runners' group keep on their little Nikes. 

I suspect this explains why I wasn't welcomed in the science lab during my school days.

Exercise doesn't reduce stress, I contend, saying you exercise decreases stress. Alternatively, if you have to say you don't exercise your stress level goes up exponentially. Admit it. The tsk tsk, frowns, scowls of contempt are the stress inducers, easier to lie.

Personally, I've yet to meet an on-line hopeful who didn't say that they exercised continually, make that hourly, whether or not they were in shape seemed to be irrelevant. Thinking you wouldn't notice guts, or handle bars therefore, is equally fascinating.

Anyway, if you are a exercise devotee keep it up. Your molecular biological changes, when the autopsy is done, will be there to validate that you were stress free, even if those nearest and dearest to you never knew it.

Comments

[natalie robinson garfield]

Interesting! Kinesthetic people are usually more anxious and excercise more.Did the scientists give the rats The Sense Mode Profile Test before the experiment?