Exercise and BDNF: What the Evidence Shows for Your Brain
Exercise raises BDNF and improves thinking in thousands of trials. What the evidence shows, its caveats, and which types of exercise help most.

Exercise raises BDNF and improves thinking in thousands of trials. What the evidence shows, its caveats, and which types of exercise help most.

The adult brain keeps rewiring itself. Exercise, hard learning, sleep and lower stress have the evidence; brain games and supplements mostly don’t.

DHA is part of the brain’s structure, but supplement trials are mostly negative. Here is what they found and who has reason to take it.