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How Music Can Help Athletes Recover from Sports Injuries

AASP

While this is widely considered the standard process to ‘properly’ heal an injury, there is a critical component that frequently goes untreated: the psychological symptoms experienced (Arvinen-Barrow & Walker, 2017). Let us dive into the neuroscience of sport injuries.</p>

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Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

Teen Health 101

Exercise is known to affect your physical health substantially, but movement also has many benefits on your mental health and well-being. However, it is important that you exercise safely and intuitively to avoid further harm to your body or mind. Exercise can also help people manage depression. and Melinda Smith, M.A.

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Electrolytes: Essential Functions for Optimal Health

Designs for Health

Sweat, particularly during physical exercise and exposure to hot weather, is the largest source of electrolyte and water loss. Even a loss of 1% body mass can potentially impact psychological functioning and activities like driving. Daily water losses also occur from respiration, urination, and bowel movements.

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Rhodiola’s Impact on Cellular Energy Production and Mitochondrial Function

Designs for Health

As an adaptogen, this plant promotes a healthy stress response by supporting non-specific general homeostasis when exposed to physical, chemical, biological, or psychological stressors. Furthermore, Rhodiola has been shown to stimulate noradrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, and acetylcholine receptors in the central nervous system.

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How To Practice Visualization Meditation With Students

PLT4M

Visualization is so powerful because our body, brain, and nervous system don’t know the difference between real life and our imagination. Therefore, if we can practice visualization meditation, then we have primed our body, brain, and nervous system to be ready for the real thing when it happens.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. Decades ago, science believed that neurons were only generated at birth, but we now know that physical activity can create new neurons through neurogenesis as we exercise. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently.

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The Supportive Role of L-Glutamine in Mental Health and Gut Health

Designs for Health

The vagus nerve , the tenth cranial nerve, facilitates this communication via the enteric nervous system. surgery, illness, high-intensity exercise) or psychological stress , maintaining proper L-glutamine status is pivotal. Optimal brain function may promote optimal gut function, and vice versa.

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