Fitness and Cognition (and a bit about blinking)

Fitness and cognition

Exercise enhances our cognitive functioning and can improve mental health, too. Today, I want to share with you a quite quirky finding from researchers in Japan. They have discovered evidence of a missing link between aerobic fitness and cognitive function.

First, a bit of background. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter. After our bodies produce the substance, our nervous systems use it to send messages between brain cells. It is a chemical messenger, one that is essential to our abilities to think, plan, focus, and find things to be interesting.

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