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Why exercise is protective of the brain
Submitted by Marnia on Tue, 2009-10-20 10:32
This research suggests that dopamine receptors are protected by lots of exercise. This may be why exercise is so helpful for recovering addicts.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48576/title/Exercise_helps_br...
What do you think
it means for an addict to have healthier dopamine function? Dont addicts have too much at one time and not enough at another? How do you interpret this? I can sure tell a difference when Im regularly exercising and when Im lethargic.
My sense is that
exercise helps restore balance. Dopamine normally regulates itself without too much distress.
In addicts it gets "out of whack," apparently because the brain adjusts itself to "too much" stimulation. No one knows exactly how this happens. It could have something to do with dopamine levels bouncing around more, or changes in nerve cell receptors.
My thought is that exercise somehow protects those parts of the brain from fluctuations (at least to a degree). I'll ask if Gary has something to add.
Thanks Marnia
You are posting things at the right time, you are making my conviction stronger and stronger. Believe me whenever I think of porn , I feel you standing in front of me and saying 'NO' lovingly and with a smile. Never even I have had anyone else say that to me.
improve your brain
The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself. Even in old age, it can grow new neurons. Severe mental decline is usually caused by disease, whereas most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and stimulation. In other words, use it or lose it.
another back to the top
another back to the top
Well there you go seeker,
Well there you go seeker, you know what to do
Although this is one of those findings that sounds almost too good to be true. Yet, it's one that should be on national news really, but unlikely to be as the people who would actually pay attention to this story are the ones already doing the exercising
Hi
Thanks I found out that doing some exercise is the best way than sitting and counting days.
worked today...
Every time I had a sexual urge today, I moved to my typical masturbation sanctuary, but lifted weights there instead. In retrospect, this is extremely comical--if there were raw footage of my day, it would involve mostly sedentary behavior punctuated by sudden feverish reciprocation of mass. But this comic interpretation may be clouded due to inebriation. The exercise certainly helped divert my attention from any sexual cravings, but then non-sexual stressors caused me to resort to alcohol. Given the often capricious nature of drunkenness, thirty seconds ago I perceived my behavior as laughable, but I now see the collective set of behaviors are potentially pathological. Even my use of the forum is a diversion--I apparently lack the capacity to experience my immediate situation without some kind of mediator, whether it is sexual preoccupation, chemical consciousness alteration, physical activity, or cognitive engagement. But I am supposedly a living being, and if we know anything about human beings in particular, it is that they are basically sexual, chemical, physical, and cognitive so maybe I am not behaving pathologically after all. I seem to be unable to decide whether I am experiencing mental paralysis or nothing out of the ordinary. Apologies for what is probably an irrelevant comment.
lol
Drunken posting. Hilarious. Also I use the forum for human interaction from people who are trying to experiment with quitting porn and mb'ing so that's a natural draw, drunk or not.
I counted a hangover a week for the first three weeks of masturbation "sobriety" (I still don't think that word really applies to jerking off but whatever.) I definitely, whether it was conscious or unconscious, was using booze to soothe my throes of masturbation withdrawal.