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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Review

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Ratey's book is excellent. It was recommended to me by a friend last summer, I bought it on Kindle, and read it quickly. I was impressed with Ratey's background (more than a decade doing research on the subject of the book), and the wealth of studies and data he cited and summarized. His straightforward writing style helped him to make his case with me too.

I have exercised regularly all my life (now in my 60's) with the reason that it makes me feel better, look better, stay healthier, and able to more easily do a lot of activities and sports that I enjoy. I have usually exercised 3 to 4 days per week since college. This book made me reflect more thoroughly on how my exercise has helped me to think better, and more clearly, and be more effective at my work and my social life. I realized that on those particularly mornings when I have done an aerobic workout I have actually felt more focused, more relaxed, and thought more clearly. I realized that the same result had occurred over and over again for me, and it did not occur on the days when I did not get that morning workout, and I also realized that that was just what Ratey was talking about in this book, and that was what the studies' data showed.

As a result of reading the book I made it a practice of getting an aerobic workout (20 minutes) every morning. It has now been 5-1/2 months and I don't think I have missed a day. It works and it continues to work. I lead a very busy life. I have a stressful business, and travel a lot. No matter where I am and no matter how little sleep I am getting, each day I continue to get by on 30 minutes less sleep so I can squeeze in that morning workout. I cannot imagine ever not doing it. It simply works. Every day I can feel the difference in the clarity of my thinking in everything I do.

Thank you Mr. Ratey.

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Overview

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.



Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.


In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think

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