Benefits of High Intensity Interval Training for Brain Optimization PH171

<p style="text-align:center;">“When we think about exercise in general as sort of a hermetic stressor, it just makes sense to think about, if you’re going to do it at a higher intensity and have these repeated hormetic stressors, you’re going to get an overall greater response. It’s a lot of the same mechanisms that we see for exercise causing a lot of great brain health and cognitive benefits, but we’re just seeing it to a greater degree.” - Julie Foucher-Urcuyo, MD</p> <p> </p> <p class="p1">In this special edition of Pursuing Health Pearls, I'm joining Dr. Matt Dawson and Dr. Mike Mallin at the Wild Health <a href='https://www.brainoptimizationsummit.com/'>Brain Optimization Summit</a> for an interview-style discussion focused on how high intensity interval training (HIIT) can optimize brain health.</p> <p class="p1">The Brain Optimization Summit featured doctors, scientists, biohackers, and nootropics professionals discussing lifestyle habits and methods to improve mental performance, memory formation, concentration, and professional creativity.</p> <p class="p1">This was a really fun conference, and they’re planning to hold another similar conference on athletic optimization which I plan to participate in, so stay tuned.  I’m also excited to share more with you about Matt and Mike when I interview them in next week's episode so stay tuned for that as well!</p> <p style="text-align:center;">In this episode we discuss:</p> <ul><li>The definition of high intensity interval training (HIIT)</li> <li>How HIIT relates to brain health and why it's advocated to improve brain health</li> <li>How HIIT can reduce risk of stroke and improve stroke recovery rates</li> <li>The amount of HIIT required to receive health benefits</li> <li>The mechanism behind getting brain health benefits from HIIT</li> <li>High intensity exercise versus moderate intensity exercise</li> <li>The impact of HIIT on dementia, depression, Parkinson's, and ADHD</li> <li>How to minimize the risks of HIIT</li> <li>Ho