Studies follow one another to confirm the beneficial effects of walking on your physical health and muscles. Researchers have observed the benefits of the impact of the foot on the ground during walking on the brain, according to the 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, pedaling have a direct effect on the brain
Researchers at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in the United States used non-invasive ultrasound to measure internal carotid artery blood velocity waves and arterial diameters in 12 healthy young adults while resting , standing and during walking (at a speed of 1 meter / second). Scientists have found that walking produces stronger pressure waves in the body which dramatically increases blood flow to the brain. The effects of walking on cerebral blood flow were less important than those caused by running, but they were more significant than the effects seen during walking. cycling.
The results of this study also provide information that there is an optimization rhythm between the blood flow of the brain and the ambulatory passage, when the frequency of our strides remains in the range of our normal heart rates, that is to say approximately 120. steps per minute.
“The new data strongly suggests that brain blood flow is very dynamic and depends directly on pressures that interact with the pressure impulses of foot impacts,” the researchers wrote. “There are dynamic effects on the blood flow of the human brain with cycling, walking and the race. Spectacularly, these activities can optimize cerebral perfusion, function and the general feeling of well-being during exercise ”.
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