If you want to lose weight, how can you be both hungry and happy? “Nature” study shows that this method can not only fight hunger, but also improve depression

After work, lay down on the bed and arrange coke and potato chips! It didn’t take long for obesity and depression to siege our health. When acne broke out and irritability, beautiful skins and interesting souls retreated! retreat! Retreat!

In fact, we can have a life-opening way of “more, faster and better savings”, and that is exercise. A recent study published in Nature shows that when you sweat profusely after exercise, the body can produce “anti-starvation molecules” that improve obesity in some people. Plus, there are numerous studies proving that exercise can improve our brains and improve depression.

Exercise can generate ‘hunger-fighting molecules’

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A team of researchers from Stanford University and Baylor College of Medicine discovered that a molecule induced by high-intensity exercise enters the brain to suppress appetite. The team calls it an “anti-starvation” molecule that could be the key to initiating the weight loss process in people with metabolic diseases.

The “starvation-fighting” molecule called Lac-Phe is a signaling metabolite. It is a mixture of two compounds found naturally in the human body: lactic acid and phenylalanine. When we exercise, many different types of cells sense lactate, and CNDP2 then helps make Lac-Phe molecules.

The researchers suggest that the exact mechanism of lac-phe suppressing hunger signals will be further explored in the future. Lac-Phe-related drugs won’t hit pharmacy shelves right away.

Children who love to run and jump are smarter

There is a “zero-hour sports program” in the United States. A middle school in Chicago requires a group of children to go to school at 7:00 every morning to run and exercise, with their heart rate reaching the highest value or 70% of their maximum oxygen uptake, and then go to a culture class.

After a semester, the group of students who exercised in the morning had a 10% improvement in both reading and comprehension skills compared to the students who did not exercise.

Brain scientist Professor Hong Lan once said:

The best way to activate a child’s brain is exercise first.

During exercise, the human brain will automatically secrete dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, these neurotransmitters are all related to learning and memory. Therefore, exercise improves learning efficiency, but saves children’s time.

Love sports to relieve depression

Professor Li Meijin once proposed:

Children must exercise adequately before the age of 12.

She once mentioned that an important factor leading to depression is the imbalance of neural excitation and inhibition in children’s brains. The cerebellum is in charge of muscles and motor joints. Often sitting and studying without exercising will cause the child’s cerebellum to not be excited in place. When his brain is fatigued, the cerebellum will definitely “make trouble”, resulting in insomnia, mood swings, and psychological problems. Adults Same thing.

Improve the balance of the big and small brain and get happiness, you need exercise. However, exercise should also be reasonable, and it is recommended that the amount of exercise exceeds the time of three meals combined.

Integrated sources: Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, “Nature”, Li Meijin’s Parenting Lecture, Hong Lan’s TED Lecture