The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But if you can use exercise as a trigger to release adrenaline and stimulate these pathways within the brain, that arrive via the signaling from the vagus, you do indeed open up the opportunity for enhanced neuroplasticity at any age.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And the thing that makes the nervous system of humans so special is that, it is capable of changing itself throughout the lifespan. So now you know at least one method by which you can do that and it, of course, involves the vagus.