NY Times: Your Brain on Long and Aerobic

[blacklab]

Thought folks might be interested in this if you haven't read it.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/1 ... v=top-news

Cheers,

Bryan

[Tim K.]

https://www.amazon.ca/Spark-Revolutiona ... 0316113506

[prairiefire]

Interesting article from the NYTimes and it looks like I need to fire up my Amazon acct and get the Spark book. For 6 months I have followed an every other day fasting regimen - also elevates BDNF. I would be interested to know if my own BDNF is up with a combination of rowing and the EODD - but as of yet I am not willing to die to find out!

[left coaster]

Old news peeps the animal studies have been in press for years.

The issue is that animal studies don't always translate to humans, I really dislike pop-culture interpretation of science that fail to fully acknowledge this. More recent evidence indicates that moderate endurance exercise may only result in BDNF release in about 60% of the population depending on the Val vs. Met representation on a certain SNP. Upside for those without the SNP seems to be that they are considerably more resilient when recovering from traumatic brain injury and may have a yet to be identified capacity for broader, structural level, neurological recovery.

If others are interested I'll dig up the specific SNP and a couple references. I've done the testing and am Val/Val, which means I'm part of the 60% who releases increased BDNF following moderate endurance exercise. I ALWAYS wear a helmet especially when I'm sleeping lol

Edit: here's one link will look for another http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 2212004186

Here's a TBI recovery 'interpretation' by Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 174538.htm

Here's another 'structural level' example of how Met's have an evolutionary advantage. Like most genetics, survival is what determines which genes get passed down http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4125061/

[left coaster]

Here's another demonstrating BDNF release is limited to Val/val, the key to this article is that the navigation training was done while participants walked http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071619

URL limit is 3. this area happens to be my wheelhouse, currently a phd candidate and wrote my comps on a closely related subject.

[ArmandoChavezUNC]

Never ever read the write-up given by a magazine, newspaper, blog, article, etc. when dealing with scientific research and scientific papers. Ever. Always go to the source and read it yourself.

The media loves to misconstrue what research findings say and cannot be trusted.

/rant

[left coaster]

Armando, I've seen a faculty member or 3 do the same thing in an attempt to glorify findings in animal labs. I think it's a broader cultural issue that ties back to ethics, or a lack there of, and self-serving motivations. I guess if you spend your career killing rodents... Chances are the journalist attended a talk by some professor who presented the data as though translation to human subjects was a 'done deal'./rant