Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood

There's a much more recent study. That took again older adults and randomized them across three different groups. One was like a low intensity group, another group basically did kind of zone two type work on a treadmill three times a week. And the third group did um a high intensity interval training intervention, which is the Norwegian four by four. protocol. So four minutes, uh eighty five to ninety five percent of maximum heart rate.

They had a three minute rest in their protocol. They did that four times over. That's three times a week. Three times a week for six months. That's that's pretty intense. But What they showed was that that high intensity interval training group, they improved their fitness just as well as the zone two group, interestingly. But they had much better improvements in hippocampal function and maintenance of hippocampal structural and MRI scan. And they maintained that benefit for five years after the six month intervention. So They worked really hard for six months, but that that benefit was maintained for for a really long period of time. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

My guest today is Dr. Tommy Wood. Dr. Tommy Wood is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also the chief science officer A better brain. a company that provides free brain health coaching.

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