A Potent Anti-Depressant Effect
- Whole Body Vibration raises serotonin – the major anti-depressant neurotransmitter (natural chemical) in your brain.
- This effect happens very quickly – many people report a better mood, greater energy, and better sleep by the next day, some report they are calmer and happier by the time they get off the vibration plate.
- Higher levels of serotonin leads to greater focus, motivation, and self-confidence. Many people suddenly finish projects they have been avoiding, everything from cleaning houses to writing projects.
Exercise Builds your Brain
- In Jogging Your Brain, a New York Times magazine article published on April 22, 2012, the author, Gretchen Reynolds, states unequivocally, “For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship…. Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does.”
- “Exercise seems to slow or reverse the brain’s physical decay, much as it does with muscles.” (ibid.)
- Whole Body Vibration is intensive exercise: 10 minutes of WBV = 1 hour of conventional weight lifting.
Exercise stimulates growth and protects the brain:
- Neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells, was once thought to only happen before birth. It is now known that, at a slower pace, neurogenesis does continue throughout life.
- Exercise triggers neurogenesis by prompting the production of brain-derived neurotropic factor, B.D.N.F.
- B.D.N.F. strengthens cells and axons, strengthens the connections among neurons and sparks neurogenesis.
Could you use some Brain Simulation?
- Beginning in their late 20’s, most people will lose about 1 percent annually of the cells in the hippocampus, a key portion of the brain related to memory and certain types of learning.
- Are you reaching your potential? Who even knows what their potential is. I believe it is often much greater than we realize, but that life, poor health and environmental factors, and our own negative thinking often gets in our way.
Becky Chambers for Example (updated Nov. 1, 2014):
I spent 40 years telling people that I couldn’t write – I had terrible writer’s block, was too depressed and repressed. It was true, at that time. Writing was a nightmare for me for many years, to the extent that I dropped out of high-school because I had to write a term paper, and I got a degree in Biology because you didn’t have to write papers for biology.
Then I started vibrating and my writing began changing dramatically. Since that day seven years ago I have written two books, Beyond the Great Abyss (a memoir not currently for sale), and Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health, which is the best-selling book in the country on this booming health system. Turns out I’m a very good writer!