WHY EXERCISE GIVES YOUR BRAIN A BOOST

PRESCRIBED blood pressure pills do their job by causing a precipitous drop in blood pressure, but they won’t, sadly, address any of the underlying problems that caused your symptoms in the first place.

If you don’t improve your lifestyle through a healthier diet, and especially by adding exercise into the mix, your cholesterol level will continue to build up, which will keep making your blood vessels even stiffer and narrower than before.

Eventually, you could get to the stage where you will require extra medication to widen the blood vessels, and if you still fail to address the lifestyle factors that elevate your blood pressure, you’ll reach the point where no amount of medication can maintain normal blood flow.

Exercise, in contrast to medication, not only helps pump blood to your brain, but also affects the underlying pathology that causes hypertension.

Regular exercise is even able to reverse damage by rejuvenating the blood vessels and increasing levels of the chemicals that help us grow new vessels. Exercise helps keep blood pressure balanced and naturally regulated — and that is really good news for your brain.