#48 The Neural Science of Exercise and Brain Health with Ryan Glatt

Check out this week's podcast episode featuring Ryan Glatt. Ryan is a psychometrist and brain health coach at the Brain Health Center at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute. With a strong background in exercise science and human health, he coaches individuals towards optimal brain health. Ryan develops curricula specifically targeted towards those with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and traumatic brain injury. He focuses his practice and research towards slowing cognitive decline for those with cognitive complaint and those who want to prevent neurodegenerative conditions.

Ryan also develops programs for the health and fitness industry on health and neuroscience. He actively consults for brain-based technology companies like SMARTFit. He has completed brain health programs from the Amen Clinics, the NeuroCoaching Institute, the Neuroscience Academy, the NeuroLeadership Institute, Neuroscience for Coaches, and others on the topics of brain health, sleep, and mindfulness. Recently, Ryan has released the Brain Health Trainer course, which is the first comprehensive course to be released on the topic of brain health and exercise.

 

In this podcast we discuss:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 10:45 - Training brain health across age demographics
• 13:02 - Exercise and brain health benefits
• 17:47 - The FITT principal
• 20:15 - The goals of brain training
• 26:00 - Exercise prescriptions
• 30:58 - Rock climbing - The single best training modality for the brain?
• 34:41 - The removal of recess in schools and child cognition
• 39:55 - Cross lateralization movements
• 43:03 - Intentional understanding of movement training
• 48:09 - Stick Mobility and the Optimal Theory of Motor Learning
• 49:53 - Stick Mobility for brain health

 

More from Ryan:

https://www.instagram.com/glatt.brainhealth/

https://www.brainhealthtrainer.com 

https://www.acefitness.org