Cycling Benefit #1: Strengthens Your Brain!

“Exercise stimulates the growth of new connections between cells in cortical areas of the brain.

A UCLA study showed exercise makes it easier for the brain to grow neuronal connections. This helps with the general power of the brain but also aids the regrowth of axons on damaged cells after a nerve crush injury, the study revealed.

Exercise can also aid brain function later in life. “It boosts blood flow and oxygen to the brain, which fires and regenerates receptors, explaining how exercise helps ward off Alzheimer’s,” says Professor Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois.

A 2019 study also found cycling improved executive functions. These are the processes that enable planning, attention focus and observation, to name just three.”

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