According to the broad science, exercise tempers ADHD by increasing the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine—both of which play leading roles in regulating the attention system. With regular physical activity, we can raise the baseline levels of dopamine and norepinephrine by spurring the growth of new receptors in certain brain areas.
Exercise also helps balance norepinephrine in the brain stem’s arousal center. “Chronic exercise improves the tone of the locus coeruleus,” says Amelia Russo-Neustadt, M.D., Ph.D., a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at California State University. “The result is that we are less prone to startle or to react out of proportion to any given situation. We also feel less irritable.”
Similarly, I think of exercise as administering the transmission fluid for the basal ganglia, which is responsible for the smooth shifting of the attention system. This area is the key binding site for stimulants, and brain scans show it to be abnormal in with ADHD.
It works I believe one of the most imporatant part besides all the health reasons is when you exercise it is your time and you get to hang out with yourself and if your as lucky as I am hang out with great friends, see and feel what you are doing for you. This is a great way to get to know yourself and build on you. Peace If you don’t want to die, What is it that you live for?Love Alexis xoxo
