Movement for Body and Mind Wellbeing

04/11/2025

Lifestyle interventions must become a core part of mental health care. 🧠 ⛹️💃🍎🍊

“The evidence is clear. Lifestyle interventions — when delivered in a way that meets the needs of people living with mental illness — can reduce psychiatric symptoms, improve physical health, and extend life expectancy. The task before us is no longer to prove efficacy, but to embed these interventions into the core of mental health care.”

Australians living with severe mental illness continue to die around 15 years earlier than the

25/10/2025

Physical exercise doesn't just strengthen muscles or improve endurance; according to a study presented by Australian Catholic University, it literally rewires the body from within.

Scientists demonstrated that movement activates a complex molecular network that transforms communication between cells, tissues, and organs. This "biological rewiring" involves genes, proteins, and metabolites that adjust how the body processes energy, combats inflammation, and regulates overall metabolism.

Genomic and proteomic analysis technologies have shown that each exercise session triggers thousands of microscopic changes that act like a symphony of adaptation. These modifications explain why physical activity protects against diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disorders.

The study suggests that the future of medicine could be based on personalized exercise programs based on each individual's molecular signature.

Reference:
"Twenty years of progress in human exercise metabolism research", 9 septiembre 2025, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01181-1

23/10/2025

A 10-week study of people 65 or older found that doing rigorous mental exercises for 30 minutes a day increased levels of the chemical messenger acetylcholine by 2.3% in a brain area involved in attention and memory.

Even healthy brains decline with age. Here's what you can do
The increase "is not huge," says Étienne de Villers-Sidani, a neurologist at McGill University in Montreal. "But it's significant, considering that you get a 2.5% decrease per decade normally just with aging."

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age.

06/07/2025

We all know that regular exercise has many benefits, including reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Exercise also improves outcomes in patients with cancer, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://cnn.it/44cTcXd

07/05/2025

07/04/2025

All movement counts. Chores, walking the dog, taking the stairs, parking a little further from the store, it all adds up. Just Move!

27/03/2025

Exercise Boost Memory Across All Ages

A sweeping review of over 2,700 clinical trials confirms that regular exercise significantly boosts brain function and memory for people of all ages.

Researchers found that even low- to moderate-intensity activities like yoga, Tai Chi, and active video games enhance cognitive health.

Improvements were seen in memory, executive function, and overall cognition, especially in children, adolescents, and individuals with ADHD.

Notably, the benefits often appeared within one to three months of beginning exercise, emphasizing how even small, consistent efforts can quickly make a difference.

The findings suggest that engaging, low-impact activities are highly accessible and effective for cognitive improvement.

Experts now advocate incorporating exercise into public health and clinical guidelines to help combat cognitive decline and support lifelong brain health.

New research finds that nearly any form of exercise can enhance brain function and memory across the lifespan.

08/01/2025

“The findings showed that for each 10 minutes spent on strength training per week, telomeres were 6.7 base pairs longer, on average. Therefore, 90 minutes per week of strength training was predictive of telomeres that were 60.3 base pairs longer, on average. Because each year of chronological age was associated with telomeres that were 15.47 base pairs shorter in this national sample, 90 minutes per week of strength training was associated with 3.9 years less biological ageing, on average. This interpretation suggests that an hour of strength training three times per week (180 total minutes) was associated with 7.8 years less biological ageing.”

New research published in Biology has demonstrated that regular strength training could knock almost a decade off your age

22/12/2024

Strength and muscle mass linked to significantly lower odds of depression

For every 1-kilogram increase in appendicular lean mass, the likelihood of depression decreased by about 5.5%.

Participants in the highest quartile of muscle mass had a 44.1% lower risk of depression compared to those in the lowest quartile.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.07.139

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders has identified a negative link between muscle strength and depression.

17/12/2024

A higher daily step count linked to fewer symptoms of depression, a new study finds. Here are ways to sneak more movement into your day.

Adding more steps in your day can be as simple as getting up from your desk more at work or walking to the supermarket.

01/12/2024

The power of neuroplasticity explained in simple terms.

Brain neuroplasticity can help us understand how some situations can easily trigger negative experiences like anxiety or recurrent pain, or positive ones like gratitude and pain relief.