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I’m just so stressed out with work, money, and social issues right now…
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I have to vent
“Ugh, I’m so stressed out.”
These words are frequently spoken in office situations and other workplaces when people are feeling fried by their environment.
And feeling stressed out is usually accompanied by a decrease in the ability to get things done.
There’s no doubt about it, environmental stress screws up how your brain works. It can make you forgetful and ditzy, and you can feel like you really can’t move forward.
But you can do something to combat environmental stress and how it affects your brain…
Even if you work in an incredibly stressful field or have very stressful things going on in your life.
Environmental stress affects the physical connections in your brain…
When we experience environmental stress, it can seriously impact on how our brain works.
Stress can weaken the intercellular connections in our brain.
And that has a negative effect on our ability to learn and on our memory.
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“Three days of chronic stress had reduced the effectiveness of the synapses in the stressed out, sedentary animals, compared to those from the control mice. Their intercellular connections were much weaker.”
On the other hand, when we are faced with really stressful situations we are often expected to “bounce back” or be resilient.
But what actually makes you resilient?
It turns out that one of the main factors in resilience is regular and consistent exercise.
This is good news because that is one thing that is completely under your control…
It’s not just some mystical thing you’re supposed to figure out how to do.
Regular exercise does more than strengthen your body.
Now, I know everyone is nagging you to move more. But there’s a good reason for this.
Regular exercise actually physically strengthens the connections between your brain cells!
Just like it strengthens your muscles.
This allows your brain cells to communicate with each other and improves memory and learning – even in stressful environments.
“Stress and adversity weaken the brain’s ability to learn and retain information, research has found. But according to a remarkable new neurological study in mice, regular exercise can counteract those effects by bolstering communication between brain cells.”
Memory is physical…
The way memory works in your brain is kind of weird.
For most of human history, we thought memory was some kind of magical or ephemeral thing.
But it turns out that memory is actually physical.
Scientists now believe that memories are stored over many brain cells.
Which is really remarkable, especially since we can remember so many things.
“Representations of experience are extremely complex, and aspects of most memories must be spread across multiple brain cells, neuroscientists have determined.”
This storage over many brain cells means the ability of the cells to communicate with each other is extremely important in recall and learning.
Because memory is physical, we can use exercise to strengthen the physical connections between the brain cells that allow us to recall memories and learn new things.
“These cells must be able to connect with one another, so that memory, as a whole, stays intact.”
And the strength of the connection between the neurons in your brain seems to determine how good your recall is.
“In general, the stronger the messages between neurons, the sturdier and more permanent the memories they hold.”
What’s remarkable is that the strength between the neurons of your brain isn’t something that you are born with (or not).
You can develop this strength through physical activity.
When you exercise, you actually make those connections between neurons stronger.
And this can erase the negative effects that stress has on learning and memory.
“Overall, it seems that exercise can improve the animals’ memories, even in the face stress…”
So if you find yourself dealing with a stressful work environment or extra stresses in your day-to-day life, one of the most important things you can do is get regular physical activity.
Regular exercise will help to negate the effects of stress on your brain and on your body.
And it will help you to be more resilient in the face of sometimes difficult circumstances.
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