The focus is often on maintaining a healthy heart, but the brain deserves some TLC, too! HealthMaker Bruce Miller, MD talks in this video about the reasons that good health and exercise affect overall brain health.
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We know that there're clear cut interventions that you can make to protect the brain. A lot them are around the heart, heart health is brain health we have learned that exercise is incredibly good for the brain. When we exercise we stimulate growth factors, the brain's craving those growth factors and without them, we think that they hippocampus dies.
So exercise, hypertension, diabetes these are all not just threats to the heart, they're also threats to the brain.
Bruce Miller, MD, is a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He directs the UCSF dementia center where patients in the San Francisco Bay Area receive comprehensive clinical evaluations.
