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Did you recognize this in a landmark learn, aerobic exercise was shown to be as efficient as antidepressants? This women who exercise, lower their chances of developing dementia by 50 percent? This a revolutionary fitness program helped put one U.S. school district of 19,000 children first in the world in technology? This, in fact, exercise sparks new brain-cell growth? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically converts our brains for peak performance.

In Spark, John J. Ratey, MD, takes the listener on a fascinating journey throughout the intellect-body connection, presenting startling new research to prove this exercise is truly the excellent defense against everything from mood disorders to ADHD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer's. He explains this the brain works just as muscles do-growing together with use, withering together with inactivity-and shows why getting your heart and lungs pumping can indicate the difference between a calm, focused intellect and a harried, inattentive self.

Filled together with cutting-edge technology and amazing case studies, Spark is the first audio book to explore the connection between exercise and the brain. And together with a neat, targeted regimen to get the listener's body moving and his intellect in peak condition, it will forever modify the way he thinks concerning his morning run-and, for this matter, the way he thinks.

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  A must read!   2010-03-12
By F. Dist (Dubois WY)
This book is outstanding!! It should be a MUST READ for every person in the world. It literally might save your life!
Customer rating is 5 of 5  A good read and great inspiration to get out and run!   2010-03-11
By Sean Messenger (Miami Beach FL, USA)
As a member of the "nerd-jock" club, I love this book. It takes recent research in exercise science and neurology and makes it very accessible and readable. I especially love how the book pulls you in with the real story of one school that took a chance and went against common wisdom to change their P.E. program and saw not just a huge improvement in student fitness levels, but also student academic test scores.

I will be teaching P.E. for the first time this fall, and this book really inspired me to see what the real potential of healthy exercise habits are. I've always known the benefits of exercise on stress levels and general happiness, but I guess I radically underestimated the total potential. Regular exercise WILL make you smarter, happier and sexier. Now it's science. :)
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Lace Up Your Cross-Trainers! (And your kids' cross-trainers too.)   2010-02-18
By Free Press Advocate
Read the first 25 pages and you'll be out of your chair,into your cross-trainers, and rounding up your loved ones for a long brisk walk.

I read this, however, as someone with PTSD and ADD, the latter diagnosed a year ago in light of recent research showing that the two go hand-in-hand. I've been reading/skimming everything I can since we can't get my medication sorted out, my liver enzymes are abnormal, and since we've just identified which of the six observed types of ADD I have. SPARK is readable, credible, and inspiring. (Eg, childhood trauma prevents the prefrontal cortex from growing to full size and from being able to perform all of its assigned executive functions. But regular exercise increases the size of the prefrontal cortex.) It's a book of hopeful surprises.

Having taught for 20 years, and being too aware of the torment and charade of No Child Left Behind, I swear we mandate that every student start his or her day with easily measured, and tracked, aerobic exercise. Walking is a low-budget item, and if morning aerobic exercise cuts school violence even half of what's reported here, and if test scores increase only half of what's reported here, we're out of our minds not to get the kids in this country to start their days with exercise. (Who knew that walking to school in the 1960's and early 70's contributed to my academic success?)

And then there's the impact we could have on our national health care crisis--

Enough. A smart and inspiring book. Read it.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  FLASH: WE ARE AND INTERGRATED SYSTEM   2010-02-16
By P. Americus (Pittsburgh, Pa USA)
LEARNED OF THIS BOOK AT THE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM AT CMU (OSHER) AND BOUGHT SEVERAL COPIES OF THIS BOOK. EXCELLENT.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  got me to exercise every single day   2010-02-14
By Wolfgang (California)
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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