Swimming is both fun and good for you brain. It's aerobic, which means it increases blood flow to your brain improving cognitive function. But unlike other aerobic exercise that is done on land, swimming is done in the water (okay, maybe that was obvious). The increase resistance of water boosts the benefits. One study shows that swimming increased blood flow to cerebral arteries by about 10 to 20 percent as compared to aerobic exercise done on land. One study also showed that swimming may have anti-depressive effects. Aerobic exercise in general can help generate new brain cells and repair damaged ones, and swimming fires up the whole brain; you use both hemispheres and all four lobes to swim. Keeping the entire brain active is one way to help improve cognition. Dive on in for brain benefits!
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