Rhonda Patrick· PhD
so because the i mean the exercise in a sense is is the type of stress on the body it's something that we actually evolved doing we before we were in our you know industrialized society where we sit in our office in cubicles we were out you know hunting gathering getting our food and moving a lot right we're moving i mean we're meant to do that right um but it is a type of stress that activates all these resilient pathways and so in the face of another type of stress whether that's parkinson's disease or alzheimer's disease or just the stress of aging you're you're going to be more resilient to that stress so you're going to deal with it better you're going to have more of this brain-derived neurotrophic factor that helps repair damaged neurons than you would you know