Studies follow one another to confirm the beneficial effects of walking on your physical health and your muscles. Researchers have observed the benefits of the impact of the foot on the ground during walking on the brain, according to results of a study published in the medical journal Experimental Biology. This physical activity sends pressure waves through the arteries and can increase the blood supply to the brain.
Walking, running, cycling have a direct action on the brain
Researchers at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in the United States used noninvasive ultrasound to measure internal carotid artery blood velocity waves and arterial diameters in 12 healthy young adults during rest , standing and while walking (at the speed of 1 meter / second). Scientists have found that walking produces greater pressure waves in the body that dramatically increase blood flow to the brain. The effects of walking on cerebral blood flow were smaller than those caused by running, but they were more significant than the effects seen during running. cycling.
The results of this study also provide information that there is an optimization rate between brain blood flow and ambulatory transition, when the frequency of our strides remains within the range of our normal heart rates, approximately 120 steps per minute.
“The new data strongly suggest that brain blood flow is highly dynamic and directly dependent on pressures that interact with pressure impulses from foot impacts,” the researchers wrote. “There are dynamic effects on human brain blood flow with cycling, walking and the race. Dramatically, these activities can optimize brain perfusion, function, and overall sense of well-being during exercise.”
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