Following the speech of Dr. José
Ramón Alonso Peña, from the University of Salamanca, during EFNA 2017, we will
discuss several key issues:
The human being is a unique functional entity, we must detach ourselves
from the mind-body idea as separate elements. We are a being whose different
parts are interconnected in multiple ways; An event that takes place in any of
them can develop the most different repercussions in other areas and at all
levels.
The brain responds to challenges, the more we demand, the better it
works. In this sense, if we join the cognitive requirement to a series of
healthy habits and a good deployment of tasks where the executive capacity is
exercised, far better. Therefore, generating enriched environments
where there are many stimulating opportunities, stands as the best environment
for learning and development.
The importance of physical activity is not only limited to be a
precursor of good health, healthy habits that also keep away from risky and
protective behaviours due to sedentary illnesses. It represents by itself a
factor of protection against natural aging and consequent deterioration of our
functions (mental agility, decision-making processes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,
sarcopenia and a long etc.) And this, produces it with such power, that it does
not exists in all the pharmacology anything that comes close, not
even far, to the multitude of beneficial effects that exercise produces in our
body.
