Summary
Explores the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Full description
- Introduction: making the connection
- Welcome to the revolution: a case study on exercise and the brain
- Learning: grow your brain cells
- Stress: the greatest challenge
- Anxiety: nothing to panic about
- Depression: move your mood
- Attention deficit: running from distraction
- Addiction: reclaiming the biology of self-control
- Hormonal changes: the impact on women's brain health
- Aging: the wise way
- The regimen: build your brain
- Afterword: fanning the flames.