NaturalNews) A recent study just found that exercise,
particularly aerobic exercise, is connected with having a higher IQ.
For the participants that were eighteen, being physically fit was also
connected with an increased chance of obtaining a University level
education.
It was a large study based on over 1.2 million people. Interestingly,
over 3,000 of the participants were twins and from the twin data;
it was concluded that environmental factors, like being physically fit,
were a far greater determinant of
intelligence than even genetics.
In fact, environmental factors were determined to be more than
80 percent of the equation, while
genetics was less than 15 percent.
Study after study confirms the benefits of aerobic exercise and a
chief physician at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital attributed t
he intelligence benefit to having an increased flow of oxygen to
the brain.
Because aerobic exercise increases the amount of
oxygen in the body,
it also contributes to having an oxygen-rich internal environment,
which is called an alkaline environment. The foods we eat play a l
arge role in determining if we're acidic or alkaline, but so does the
amount of oxygen we take in. And within reason, the more oxygen
and oxygen-rich foods we take in regularly, the fewer problems we'll see.
There are a couple of other benefits of aerobic exercise that don't
get the face time they deserve.Exercise helps detoxify our bodies
- and just as pollutants gather in stagnant water, stagnant
bloodand lymph also gather
toxins.
Exercise helps improve circulation which means that environmental
and metabolic toxins are less likely to become concentrated in areas
of the body. And when toxins flow, they're more apt to be eliminated
via the liver and colon.
Exercise benefits our
lymphatic system and one of that system's primary
functions is to eliminate toxins, especially metabolic toxins, from the body.
But, unlike the blood that has the heart as a subconscious pump, the
primary way to stimulate the lymphatic system to do this job is through
body movement.
When the lymphatic system becomes impure with waste, toxicity throughout
the body is the result. Bernard Jensen, Ph.D. tells us, "If the lymph
is not kept moving, toxic-laden areas can become sources of infection
and inflammation."Aerobic exercise also increases the movement of the
bowels which helps filth leave the body in a more timely manner. Of course,
aerobic exercise encourages sweating and sweating is a primary way
that toxins leave the body - through the skin.
Bernard Jensen also tells us that our bodies should be releasing two pounds
of toxins every day - just through the skin. And it generally takes aerobic
exercise to make that happen.There are quite a few benefits to aerobic exercise,
but not many realize that helping the body remove stored toxins is one of them.
It's well documented that environmental toxins have often
extreme and adverse effects on the
brain, body and intelligence.
So perhaps helping to remove many of these poisons is another reason that
people who exercise aerobically regularly are found to have higher IQ's.
