Regular swimming classes improve cognitive cerebral functions, and also form new neural connections in it. Such a load helps to recover after stress, it is reported in the Neurobiology associate professor from the University of Mardi Hardin-Bailor Sina Matthew in The Conversation magazine.
Matthew said that swimming is the most useful aerobic load for the brain and memory. So, according to this indicator, it exceeds a run or ride on a bike. Most of the research on the influence of swimming on the brain, carried out on rats, since these rodents have significant genetic and anatomical similarities with people.
As a result of one such test, scientists have proven that swimming stimulates certain brain paths. They are able to suppress inflammation in the hippocampus, as well as prevent apoptosis – the process of programmable cell death. Swimming also increases the survival rate of neurons and reduces the cognitive effects of aging.