Exercise Releases Memory-Boosting Hormone

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]guys, and perhaps other forms of exercise too, but mainly cardiovascular exercise creates the release of osteocalcin from the bones that travels to the brain and to subregions of the hippocampus and encourages the electrical activity and the formation and maintenance of connections within the hippocampus and keeps the hippocampus functioning well in order to lay down new memories. So much of our brain real estate is devoted to movement that it's been hypothesized for more than a half century, but especially in recent years as we've learned more about the function of the brain at a really detailed circuit level, that the relationship between the brain and body and the maintenance and perhaps even the improvement of neural circuitry in the brain depends on our body movements and the signal from the body that our brain is still moving.