Has anyone thought, that during a 30-min heart-pumping cardio exercise (while you raise up the heart beat, toning up all muscles, and wearing out all joints), there is no benefit for your brains cells? It is only when you stop your cardio and warm down to a certain point, your capillary beds in the brain and other internal organs start to open up. Your elevated heart rate and your panting for air (oxygen) will improve micro-circulation for a minute or less, depending on how long you stay still. So, you spend 30 minutes to improve your muscles (and hurting your joints) and achieve only 1 minute of brain healing time. That is not very efficient. In theory, you may improve the efficiency by doing 10 short sets of cardio within an hour so that you can earn 10 minutes of brain healing time.
This is still better than the electric convulsion treatment. I always feel that the electric current which is used to shock the brain would cause more damage to the brain than to heal it. Most people think otherwise. My theory is the same as above. It is the seizure of the brain that causes stress to the heart and bring up the heart rate. Then, the elevated heart rate plus oxygen mask would improve micro-circulation in the brain and produce healing effects. Of course, doing very very slow taichi would be the most efficient way of all. A 30 minute set of taichi would possibility produce 29 minutes of quality micro-circulation time for all cells from head to toe. This is my taichi healing theory called Pao’s Law of Exercise, which uses hemodynamics and micro-circulations to explain all healing effects.
Of course, doing 30 min of exercise to obtain 1 min (or a fraction of it because the mice may not want to sit still) of good blood circulations in brain will be better than doing zero min of exercise to obtain zero min of good blood circulations in brain.
On the other hand, if you can tell the other group of mice to stay still for 30 min and feed them with oxygen and some caffeine to raise up their heart beats moderately, I bet that they would be smarter than the mice which do 30 min of exercise.
I just want more people to focus on the immediate-after-effects of all exercises (when someone is not moving anymore and the heart rate is still high) rather than during the exercises (when blood is diverted to muscles).
I don't quite buy the angiogenesis theory but it did make the point that brain cells can work better if you deliver more blood to them. This is exactly what my taichi healing and Pao's Law of Exercise is all about.
I guess that they are the lucky patients. I hope that some researchers can try the following taichi method on mice or human in the near future.
1) Make them motionless by sedation.
2) Put oxygen mask or put them in oxygen chamber.
3) Induce moderate heart rate increase every 30 seconds for a total of 30 min.
Almost the same as doing a set of very slow taichi except for smaller (heart) stroke volumes, this method should be able to send more blood to brain cells (and other organs as well). I would equate this treatment as sipping a glass of red wine quietly on top of a small Greek island, for normal people of course. That is why we need to sedate mice and mental patients so that they don't struggle and move around. If this does not work, may add some magnesium in blood to make it flow better during treatment.
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The more I study this subject, the more I am convinced that because of the shut down of many pre-capillary sphincters to divert blood flow to muscles as you move (as slow as walking slowly), cardio exercises are not good to brain, liver, kidney, stomach, skin, and you name it. They only generate heat and burn of fat and sugar in your body. The more and longer you do these exercises, they may start to harm your whole body slowly. Hence, unless you are as fit as an astronaut (who is assumed to have near perfect capillaries and sphincters in their internal organs), don’t overdo cardio exercises in one go. Instead, you should break them up and do many short sets, and rest in between in complete stillness. This is to simulate the slow taichi effect (which is explain in my thesis “Taichi Healing & Pao’s Law of Exercise” posted on this website) to improve your brain and other organs and tissues. As a matter of fact, if you don’t over eat, 30 minutes of slow taichi for 30 minutes a day will get you a healthy body. This will save a lot of money for your country.
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