Why the Brain is Built for Movement | Anders Hansen | TEDxUmeå

Do you want to be more creative, boost your memory, mood, focus and stress tolerance? Then get moving! Physical activity has remarkable effects on the human brain. In this talk, I will show you how - and why - we have brains that are built for moving.
I am psychiatrist and MD, earned my medical degree at Karolinska Institutet and received an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. I have written over 2,000 articles on medical research for the Swedish medical journal Läkartidningen and several other newspapers, as well as two books that have been sold in 12 countries. My latest bestselling book “The real happy pill”, due to be published in the US, China and several other countries during 2017, concerns how physical activity affects the brain.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@walterscott2286]

I'm grateful to have learned that running can work for alleviating mild to moderate depression. I'll have to remember that in order to deal with the usual "SAD" depression I get in the wintertime. I remember how very much better I would immediately feel after a 20 minute, moderately strenuous stationary bike ride.

[@fogracoonlikea5490]

I just finished reading his book and it led me here. I like his voice! Interesting talk!

[@unwritten4666]

Thank you so much for this video/talk. It really helped me recently when I got hit with some anxiety. I had just stopped training Brazilian jiu jitsu after training for 5 years and got hit with acute anxiety a few months after stopped training. I watched this video and got back to training the same day. The feeling was incredible, I completely changed within 1 day after training again. I completely believe the body HAS to be moving. I will always stay active from now on

[@user-il5hh3zw4m]

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[@egalkanadid4958]

For years i was looking any motivation video, training, research, or even real life experience but after watching this i really got motivated and will start today. Thank You Anders Hansen

[@Doherty1222]

Excellent talk, very clearly explained, great examples. We are effectively still designed the same as when we lived on the African Savannah. A crucial talk in these times when sedentary living and overweight/obesity stats are skyrocketing! As a teacher and neuroeducation expert, I see it as an urgent challenge to incroporate more physical activity into our classrooms, schools, universities and daily lives. Thanks Anders for this stellar talk and also much appreciate the use of non-sexist language!

[@willians256]

My notes: Walk fast for 40 minutes every day and your hippocampus will grow instead of shrink every year, increasing your creativity, mood, attention, memory

[@soniczforever5470]

Walking does nothing for me running made me feel better now I can't anymore

[@gipi23]

Well, as a kid, growing up in small village, it was always like this - you moved a lot, and it just worked. We use philosophy too mch these days, it is really very simple - your body and mind needs an outlet....by moving you get one.

[@pjauthur9869]

love this as a general refresher on importance of exercise, but we have to always bear in mind correlation doesn't equal causation

[@LifeisTravelisLife]

Thank you for the excellant ted speech. I was really motivated that I have to walk and execercise. It must be cheapest way to slow down aging and decrease the probability of getting disease.

[@Physiostepbystep]

Great job! I hope that more and more people will benefit from your knowledge. Rest assured that I will do my best to spread the word as much as I can. Thanks for your book and also for the talk in TEDx!

[@christ820]

right on. enjoy it thoroughly. so true

[@HanginWithJayden]

Great talk. So much info.

[@huichen3425]

Exercise is about something much more fundamental than that. Thank you !

[@ingjaldforss3246]

Excellent talk! Interesting, entertaining and motivating!

[@simplelife1480]

Hi Today our TV program in Japan introduced your book about smartphones and brains. Then I came here. These facts you provided are very convincing, even though you haven't touched on any smartphones this time! Thanks. I will cherish my daily exercises more. And I really like the idea that even jogging has value as much as many other advanced technology in medical fields!

[@ajinkyanikam8260]

I loved it . I will definitely follow

[@arifali6762]

Thx great info

[@yt-sh]

6:29 Brain is built for movement

[@Yu-zv8tk]

スマホ脳を読んで、Tedも観たくなったので訳があってよかった！ありがとうございます

[@emilieyegikyan3782]

Brilliant !

[@peacefulisland67]

What I find frustrating is it isn't about steps but steps and heartrate. Most of the people I know are focused on adding steps and not the way they're getting them. I walk at my job for most of the shift but rarely have a need to increase my heartrate except out of frustration.

[@yt-sh]

This dude is smart!

[@annwarneka868]

Fantastic talk.The brain & body are built for movement and physical labor. What's the best action plan?

[@edu954]

very nice

[@projectmalus]

I agree with what he says in general but not 100% with his conclusions, that the improvement is due to dopamine exclusively and the mental evolutionary "run to hunt" reason he gives, to some degree yes but I think there is also some purely mechanical reason, like increased blood flow to the brain for example that improves mood and cognition. Also, the reason he gives for why we tend to be couch potatoes has to do with conservation of energy from a evolutionary perspective, but I think there's a drop of efficiency with lower health that leads to a laziness or disinclination to move. Again, a mechanical reason instead of a mental reason. Great talk though, thanks very much.

[@TAKAHIROVlog]

NICE Video👍

[@silverismoney]

It was a great talk, I think meditation and exercise are the key to keeping the brain healthy. But just as an anecodote when he said alcohol and drugs make the hippocampus shrink - the smartest guy I know (PhD computer scientist) drinks about 10 beers a night and then gives lectures to post-grad students lol.

[@OldManDave1960]

Your example is the textbook definition of "anecdote "

[@anthonysavio3875]

I will search for this chap and just have a chat with him for 30mins. Mr Anders where can i find you? When are you visiting Malmö or the nearby cities???

[@lesam424]

Dr hansen,when reading on screen,do you retain or understand as much as when reading hardcopy in adulthood,i enjoyed your talk with dr chattergee.

[@jedlimen123]

It is 2020, we too might be running for our lives! lol!

[@ziggyai]

So does it have to be aerobic exercises?

[@slawomirVLOG]

genialne

[@facundolucasch3393]

por qué no tiene mas el subtitulo??

[@01youngil]

Oh the writter! I'm reading your book in Korean.

[@nilen]

Is it good?

[@01youngil]

The book fired up my desire to run. I started running. And I got knee pain. Rested for weeks. Recoverd. I decided to Start with walking thinking about my level. And I got knee pain after WALKING for 23km under 6 hours. The pain is not gone for months. A doctor said I need rest. After 1 month more, NOW I am thinking to meet another new doctor. I hope recover well and Run without pain for hours later. Yeap your book inspired me , I now start to read your book again after your this comment. I think Re-reading will give me more inlightment because I have experience.

[@soniczforever5470]

I got a disease that prevented me running I'm now overweight I cannot sweat anymore I'd to give up the running I loved if gain weight even if I trained wasn't fun anymore it was a shame. I don't know why it happened 😕

[@chm1243]

I would like to see an MRI of those hunters and gatherrs.

[@UMS9695]

😄😄 exactly! People dig BS!

[@user-fr1vl9gi7h]

03:25 해마크기 06:00 IQ와 심혈관

[@andri5071]

Is "man" not just general name for any human being? Is there "womankind"?

[@tristanteotcteo]

It's to prevent offending and receiving backlashes primarily from the modern feminists, the social justice warriors (SJWs) and the LGBTQA×&^$&×*+;#_+&@¥+8372629 community.

[@saosaqii5807]

What about Stephen hawking? He practically can’t move for idk several decades

[@chimpalahee]

And look how unhappy he was

[@OldManDave1960]

What about him?

[@jacquelineroy9130]

Too much for my brain.

[@UMS9695]

Some of the comparisons are ridiculous. The people of Savanna and other such places living the hunter gatherer life are, well, still hunter gatherers while the population you are comparing them with have enormously evolved brains. Thus, such comparisons fails. You'd do better to cut the fluff and just state that people must move. That I agree with you 100% percent.

[@leeleeturn]

You can take a young child from a group of hunter-gatherers in the remote Australian outback, and put them in Western grammar schools and they will do just as well as their classmates. Read about it. The brains are the same.

[@Pie---------n]

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[@domib.3924]

Or just return to hunter-gatherer.

[@OldManDave1960]

Not going to happen

[@peteryeng]

OK, exercise is good. But the reason given sucks. If we look at people as a whole, the industrialized world has become more sedentary but our IQ has improved. The hypothesis of why is pretty horrid.

[@anderssjoberg4167]

Why is it horrid?

[@ChristianRuschOfficial]

By and large our diet has improved, we as a population have attended school more, we have (compared to earlier generations) increasingly trained cognitive functions that are associated with IQ tests, etc. Granted, the IQ-improving effect of exercise is not huge, but given what we've previously thought we've known about intelligence, even a small bump is quite remarkable. Big picture Peter, big picture.

[@user-jd1hy9bg1d]

Iq improved LMAO HAHA

[@shahrulnizam3770]

What do mean by IQ? Being well informed is not the same as having a good analytical processing. The ease of accessing information by just several clicks does not equate to IQ.

[@OldManDave1960]

We have an epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer and dementia. Fact.