[Sunnybayes]

Here's how exercise fits into all of this... just randomly found some things

The Effect of Repeated Physical Exercise on Hippocampus and Brain Cortex in Stressed Rats -- FILIPOVIC et al. 1096 (1): 207 -- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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Changes in plasma levels of adenocorticotropic hormone and corticosterone were also studied. A significant decrease in cytosol GR and Hsp70 was observed after acute stress. Opposite to that, chronic stress led to negligible changes in both cytosol GR and Hsp70 levels. Isolation, as chronic psychosocial stressor, caused reduced responsiveness to novel acute stressors, judged by the cytosol GR and Hsp70 levels.

This was not observed if chronic isolation was combined with 15 min daily swimming prior to acute exposure to immobilization. The data suggest that repeated physical exercise may, at least in some cases, diminish
detrimental effects of chronic social isolation on limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, as judged by the levels of GR and Hsp70 in the Wistar rat brain.

So... I have no clue what all those huge words mean... we're not rats but it looks like it says that if you exercise that doing exercise reduces the effect of being socially isolated.... and you saw how I keep on going on about how horrible it is to be socially isolated.

And it says

detrimental effects of chronic social isolation

so social isolation must be bad.

I back this up with my experience again... well I always seem to feel better after I exercise. Yea I could write a story about how I felt bad at first blablabla... and then I walked... blablabla...

and I should take back when I wrote

That's when I'd go for a walk and stop dumping in more information so that I can empty my "off" tank, and fill my on tank..., but this walking around is pointless if I don't see any people to stimulate my right brain, so it would be just better to just close my eyes and sleep.

So it was quite useful walking around, just not as good as walking around with friends..., and I had in my mind that it was strictly being with people so that influenced my judgment, and that's what I get for writing things down and not retesting that well.

I noticed that I've been feeling like jello... the meditation stuff definably does help in being able to take action... but I felt still feel kinda jello-ish and not as happy as I felt back after traveling... but now I know why... its because I was around people so much, and I was always walking around, and all the new stimulus, and the prettier people there..., but today was better because I conciously remembered the effects of just walking around for an hour, and I do definably feel more sharp. I have a computer programming internship so I've defiantly been more seditary, I'll just have to park my car like 15 minutes away from work, and then I could walk the rest of the way, then I'd have a convenient way to get 30 minutes of exercise in everyday. And I'll start doing my 1 handed push ups again.

And therefore I've just rediscovered what everyone's been saying for the last 2 billion years... I'm brilliant... exercise is amazing. Wow... what's even more amazing is the stuff that you'd ignore and not believe unless you figure it out for yourself (well that's me at least). Ha. Talk about knowing a formula that is so simple, and not believing it cause its too simple. Well have fun guys with figure out all this stuff yourself, cause you're probably like me and wont believe anything unless you learn it the hard way. oh well.

I wonder how many more billions of dollars we're going to spend on antidepressant drug research before we get the clue that we should just get off our asses... well if people are like me... probably billions more... wow... and you see all these diseases... and each disease has a billion dollar drug research behind it... holy crap...

Well it all makes sense if you consider that 99% (or something like that) of human history has been spent in the outdoors in nature... I guess we forget that we are animals....

I could list tonnes more evidence of examples... and stuff like that... well just google "effects of exercise"

"Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms - MayoClinic.com
Some evidence suggests that exercise positively affects the levels of certain mood-enhancing neurotransmitters in the brain."

"Exercise has a number of effects that benefit the heart and circulation, ... The effects of exercise on stroke are less established than on heart disease, ..."

"Psychological Effects of Exercise
The psychological benefits of aerobic exercise are numberous: mood enhancing, reduced anxiety and depression and also stress reduction."

"ScienceDaily: Exercise Reverses Unhealthy Effects Of Inactivity
Many of the detrimental effects of physical inactivity can be reversed, and in some cases improved, by a similar period of moderate exercise."

"Exercise is medicine: the anti-inflammatory effects of high ...
Exercise is medicine: the anti-inflammatory effects of high intensity exercise from Townsend"

"Stopping Exercise Has Adverse Psychological Effects - Journal ...
According to research findings and widespread clinical observations, depressive symptoms are common after the cessation of regular aerobic exercise and are..."

IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE
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IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE. When you exercise or take part in a strenuous sport you will notice several changes taking place in your body: ...

"Exercise shows beneficial effects in patients with Parkinson's disease
A new study from researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern"

"Effects of aerobic and resistive exercise on symptoms, immune ...
Conclusions: This study will provide empirical data about the effects of exercise on the above variables in a racially diverse group of HIV+ men and women. ..."

"Conclusions: This study will provide empirical data about the effects of exercise on the above variables in a racially diverse group of HIV+ men and women. Early results on VO2MAX, time on treadmill, and POMS subscales (particularly depression, anxiety, vigor) are promising."

Just look at this page:
Effects of exercise on breast cancer patients and survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
"Physical exercise has been identified as a potential intervention to improve quality of life in women with breast cancer. We sought to summarize the available evidence concerning the effects of exercise on breast cancer patients and survivors."

Physical exercise has consistently been identified as a central element of rehabilitation for many chronic diseases5–8 and has been successful in improving quality of life and reducing all-cause mortality.9 Recent observational evidence suggests that moderate levels of physical activity may even reduce the risk of death from breast cancer,10 and therefore exercise may prove to be a valuable intervention to improve not only quality of life but overall survival.

Exercise Suppresses Appetite

BBC ImageBBC Health -- Exercising after meals can help promote weight loss by boosting hormones that suppress appetite, say UK scientists. Thanks to these hormones, active people feel less hungry immediately after exercise, and this carries through to their next meal, experiments suggest.

Its like they think that breast cancer paintents are no longer human... and they've got 40 references to back it up. Its like "huh guys... do you think that exercise might make them feel better??? I don't know... maybe this will be the exception where doing some exercise might make them want to kill themselves"

I wonder how much money was wasted there...

ah... its like we have to rigorously derive all of algebra again every time you want to check that 2+2=4. And then its like... hmmm do you think that 3+3=6? I don't know... Wow. Its ridiculous. Ok. So I'll have to type up an essay on the absolute absurdities of current American culture. I've shown that I'm as stupid as all the rest of us, and man... we're nuts.