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NOTE: It was stated by one of the leading authorities of this Scientific/Medical study that you are about to read, that quoted; “I cannot think of a better and more rapid way to accomplish this health benefit than by using the Count Yogi Mental Golf Art Technique”!
ABC
NEWS Transcript #6022 Air Date: January 31, 1996
World
News Tonight with
PETER
JENNINGS: We
have put your brain on the American Agenda tonight.
This is a story that may have enormous implications for the way you
lead your life.
As
people get older, it is quite natural to be anxious about losing one’s
mental edge. We’ve put this
on the Agenda tonight because there is dramatic new scientific evidence
that it is within your power to keep your brain sharper longer.
Our
Agenda reporter is Bill Blakemore.
BILL
BLAKEMORE, ABC News:
(voice-over) In this big toy box at the University of Illinois,
curious lab animals have been revealing secrets about the brain; secrets
that for us humans can greatly improve the quality of our old age.
What
scientists have found is that as these animals explore these colorful toys
they actually grow new brain. Even
the oldest ones. Scientist
Bill Greno (sp?) studied the brain cells of rats who were given elaborate
new structures to explore every day.
BILL
GRENO:
There were about 20 to 25 percent more connections between brain cells
than animals that grew up in stand laboratory cages.
BILL
BLAKEMORE:
(voice over) Those couch potato rats had brain cells that looked
like this. But the toy box
rats had brain cells like this. They
had grown many more branches, billions of them.
And along each new branch, hundreds of these tiny bumps; each bump
a synapse, the point at which two brain cells make contact, talk to each
other.
BILL
GRENO:
This is the communication point, right through here.
This is the storm of a thought, in-a sense.
This is the exact point where the never cells come together and
communicate.
BILL
BLAKEMORE:
(voice-over) Even very old animals kept growing lots of these new synapses
if they were given exciting surroundings.
They had found similar changes in brains of animals ranging from
snails all the way to monkeys and are virtually certain the same brain
growth happens in humans, no matter how old they are, as long as they keep
challenging themselves.
But
what kind of challenge? Was
it the physical exercise of exploring the toys that made the brain grow or
the mental work of learning about them?
To find out, Greno built these two courses for his animals to run. Both give exercise, but only the acrobatic course requires
learning to keep from falling. And
only on the acrobatic course did their brains grow new synapses.
BILL
GRENO:
It’s the learning, specifically, that causes these changes in the brain.
The physical activity doesn’t do it.
BILL
BLAKEMORE:
(voice over) But they discovered that physical activity does grow
something else in the brain. Animals
who only exercised without having to learn anything grew many new blood
vessels in the brain.
BILL
GRENO: So
you’re actually able to see here an increased blood supply to the brain
of aging rats. And I’m sure it’s true of aging people, as well, is that
if you exercise, you can actually increase the blood supply to regions of
the brain.
BILL
BLAKEMORE:
(voice over) New blood vessels bring the b rain more nutrients.
That helps the brain grow more synapses and helps you think hard
longer, give you mental stamina. The
lesson for seniors—
BILL
GRENO: You
need to exercise your brain in at least two different ways.
First, you have to exercise it with physical activity, motor skill
learning. Secondly, you have
to exercise it intellectually. You
have to basically use it to think, learn and remember.
BILL
BLAKEMORE: And
the two things help each other. The
physical activity by creating more blood vessels in the brain makes it
more ready to learn and remember and, thus, grow more synapses.
(voice
over) A growing number of
older Americans have been reporting the powerful mental benefits of
staying engaged and exercising.
1st
SENIOR CITIZEN: I
go to three or four classes a week to keep this going too.
2nd
SENIOR CITIZEN: It’s
good for not just the body, but the brain.
BILL
BLAKEMORE:
(voice over) Scientists Carl Cochman (sp?) of the University of
California, has discovered another reason why physical exercise is even
more important for seniors than for younger people—it can help prevent
this. You are watching a
brain cell dismantle itself. Each
cell is programmed for this built-in natural brain cell death.
And it’s increasingly likely to happen as we get older.
However, working with lab animals, Cochman discovered that physical
exercise helps prevent it by flooding the brain with special growth
molecules, billions of them.
CARL
COCHMAN: Just
a few days of running increases growth molecules in the structures that
are involved in learning and memory.
It helps the brain cells stay healthy, work better and essentially
live longer.
BILL
BLAKEMORE: (voice-over)
Scientists have found, however, that all three benefits---growth
molecules, blood vessels and synapses---shrink away if you stop
challenging your mind and getting exercise.
They also point out that you cannot stop the aging process.
But you can improve it.
This
is Bill Blakemore for the American Agenda.
PETER
JENNINGS:
Back in just a moment.
(Commercial break)
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Now!
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