How Does Exercise Affect Teens
Exercise has both a physical and mental affect on people of all age’s teens and adults. Exercise can make you feel better, help a lot of other things in the body, and make you look better. In this article I will talk about how exercise affects mental health, mental development, and how it affects the brain.
How Does Exercise Affect Teens Mental Health?
Exercise keeps teens and people of all ages healthy. Teens need to maintain a healthy body to keep a healthy mind as well. Exercise and working out release’s hormones called endorphins. These hormones make you feel happier and make you feel better if you are depressed. Another hormone released is serotonin, which regulates your general mood, but the exercise improves your mood. Exercise doesn’t just help deal with depression, but it also helps to decrease anxiety levels. Exercise helping to keep yourself looking good makes you feel better about yourself and helps to boost your self-esteem.
How Does Exercise Affect Teen Mental Development?
Exercise is a good way to avoid developing a mental illness. Exercise helps you sleep, helps your mood, reduces stress, anxiety, and depression including avoiding the development of depression. Exercise even helps with the formation of neurons in a process called neurogenesis as well as the development of the hippocampus. Helping the formation of the Hippocampus improves a person’s cognitive functions, including memory attention span, and your ability to learn. Exercise stimulates the production of the mood regulating neurotransmitters causing people to feel better much more most of the time.
How Does Exercise Affect the Teens Brain?
Exercise helps with the formation of the brain and multiple things that need the brain to develop. Exercise helps to increase brain volume and function. Exercise increases the volume of the Hippocampus and increases the production of brain matter. Exercise increases sleep quality and quantity which is vital for the formation of the brain and parts of the brain that help the entire body function. During exercise, parts of the brain form that are associated with rational thinking, social, physical, and intellectual performance and many more essential functions. Exercise is so important for numerous reasons.
Written by: Ariya