Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

This book by John J. Ratey was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, brain health, consciousness, depression & mood, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John J.

• “I would suggest that you explore a few different types of exercise there's actually a book that was published quite a long time ago called spark that goes into some of the physiological underpinnings of psychological or mood Improvement following exercise”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I would suggest that you explore... there's actually a book... called spark that goes into some of the physiological underpinnings of psychological or mood Improvement following exercise”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202203:41:55

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