Sport boosts intellectual faculties

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Extract from the article: Exercises that stimulate oxygenation can help prevent or at least slow down some of the cognitive changes that occur as we age.

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Researchers at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York have shown that aerobic exercises, which stimulate oxygenation, can improve cognitive abilities in adults of all ages. The findings, echoed by the journal « Neurology », showed that people who practice aerobic exercise regularly experience significant improvements in their executive functions. Executive functions are nothing other than the mental process that helps to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves on a daily basis; they allow us to anticipate, organize, reason to solve problems and to move from one task to another. Exercises that stimulate oxygenation can help prevent or at least slow down some of the cognitive changes that occur as we age. Practice walking, cycling, swimming.

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