Student Exercise Led to Brain Gain
Student Exercise Led to Significant Brain Gain, neurogenesis - the growth of new brain cells.
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Student Exercise Led to Significant Brain Gain, neurogenesis - the growth of new brain cells.
Over 80% of students do not get a healthy amount of required daily exercise through gym classes and daily activities.
Student Exercise Led to Brain Gain
Instead, kids are trapped inside today by technology's stranglehold, preventing movement, sunshine (vitamin D), human interaction, and many other contributing factors to poor mental health.
Kids rather play with their friends by creating Roblox communities or playing other online interactive games like Among Us rather than get proper daily student exercise.
Their parents instead let the tech be their babysitter, as the parent most likely is spending more time on their devices, taking pictures of the moment instead of living in it.
Technology like smartphones, tablets, computers and other sources that connect a kid to the internet is addictive and has similar neurological effects to cracking cocaine.
The technology should inspire imagination and kill their dreams and creativity if used correctly.
Take a Break from Technology
Steve Jobs, the biographer, wrote he only allowed his kids on an iPhone for 30 minutes a day and never on weekends.
Even Steve Jobs often exercised by walking every day, even for meetings.
Two people on the board of Facebook admitted to being a part of multiple meetings before Facebook was released to the public.
The sessions were about how this technology changes how people communicate.
Unfortunately, those two board members quit immediately and could not continue working for Facebook because of their belief in how unethical and immoral such technology is.
I give as much credit to Mark Zuckerberg for creating Facebook as to Thomas Edison for creating the light.
Student exercise is way stronger medicine than anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, and ADHD meds.
Here is how two schools, one in Canada and one in the United States, implemented mandatory exercise and its short and long-term effects.
Twenty-five years ago, Naperville Central High near Chicago implemented a program for students who did 45 minutes of rigorous student exercise the first thing in the morning.
Exercise for at least 20 Minutes a Day
Students must wear heart monitors and keep their heart rate maximum between 65% and 75% for 20 minutes during student exercise.
They have also incorporated classroom learning that involves a lot of movement and interaction with other students.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, implemented a similar program started by a teacher who would make her students run on a treadmill with a heart monitor with their heart rate max staying between 65% - 75% for at least 20 minutes.
It worked so well the first year that other grades and teachers started to do it.
When doing continuous vigorous student exercise, one of the essential things in the brain is releasing nerve growth factors, especially BDMF, in the brain's hippocampus.
BDMF acts as a fertilizer on the hippocampus and other brain parts.
Thus, it helps preserve and make brain cells stronger and helps the brain sustain stress, amongst other factors.
Student exercise creates neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells.
Doing exercise first thing in the morning wakes the frontal lobe, which is responsible for impulses.
Impulse is the number one factor in managing behaviour in classrooms.