Healthy Chemistry for Optimal Health
Healthy Chemistry for Optimal Health – Good Chemicals for the Body In order for a person to get fit and healthy, he or she should engage in exercise. It would have physical benefits to your body and physiological advantages as well.
While exercising, the body produces good chemicals to the body. For instance, running is a form of exercise that generates chain reaction to your body that activates chemicals called neurotransmitters in a cycle on brain.
Neurotransmitters can give out sensations or feeling of happiness and excitement while running or a feeling of exhaustion after exercising.
What’s Good
Endorphins
Endorphins target the body’s limbic and prefrontal area of a person’s brain. These parts of the brain are responsible for emotion and feelings of a person.
Endorphins that are released are related to the runner’s high activity they mostly experience. This chemical can boost the mood of the runner and can minimize the feeling of pain.
According to a study conducted by a Germany researcher, people who run every day have higher tolerance than people who don’t. This chemical is also associated with addiction. Drug users are believed to release endorphins, which make them addicted to drug intake. Same with runners, they would say that running is “addictive”.
Serotonin
Serotonin is a chemical that is responsible for a person’s mood, appetite, the cycle of sleep and libido. Aside from exercising, it is also released when you eat turkey and carbohydrates. In some cases of depression, artificial serotonin is given as medication to reduce the symptoms of depression and to boost your moods.
The effect of serotonin stays longer in your body even after exercising, therefore increasing and improving overall feelings.
Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor
Neurotrophic is a neurotransmitter that helps the brain, targeting the hippocampus. This chemical is responsible for a person’s memory improvement and the overall fitness of the brain. According to experts, people suffering from depression are low on this neurotransmitter.
By exercising, it can build up the mind’s alertness and the feeling of happiness after working out. However, the body only releases a certain amount of this neurotransmitter during an exercise session. Even if you exercise longer, it would not increase the neurotransmitter that will be released.
A person exercising regularly will be more likely to have a feeling of happiness and good appetite. The reason behind this would be the ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitters that are released by the body, which will help a person stay fit and healthy not only physically, but also mentally.
Having these good chemicals released, a person will be eliminating the risk of having symptoms of depression and would maintain the happiness that they are feeling.
These neurotransmitters will also maintain the balance of producing a feeling to a person. Thus, if you want to stay healthy and happy, both physically and mentally, you should engage yourself in exercise regularly.
These chemicals won’t be released on your body, not until you do a body work out regularly. Make sure that exercise is part of your schedule every week so that it will also have a positive outcome when you go to work, as it also eliminates stress.
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