What do you think of people who say that physical exercise boosts your intellectual skill?

[jennifer_bloom]

I know a lot of smart people and they are all obsessed with diet and fitness, all play some sort of sport, none are purely high I. Q. and no athletic skill. I read that doing physical exercise can boost your intellectual abilities and my surveying of smart people seems to prove that this claim is true. The most successful people I know are also the ones who do the most aggressive and difficult exercises in their free time.

[Nifrayu]

I haven't researched this, but I have always heard that exercise is good for the brain.

[slatyb]

I think it's true. The brain isn't separate from the body.

[love_conquers_lust]

Yup. That’s why I hate my ailment. I miss being able to move freely without being guarded.

[jennifer_bloom]

If you eat vitamins and minerals and nutritional things you can maintain a healthy weight and brain without exercise

[love_conquers_lust]

I am smack dab where I need to be with BMI and my height to waist ratio is good. I don’t eat much so I don’t need to tinker with my diet all that much. I don’t do soda, or coffee, only water and milk. I generally don’t eat candy, don’t drink, no drugs. I do take a daily chewable vitamin. I like fresh meals.

I’m fortunate there’s some exercise I can do. But it’s limited on my afflicted limb. It sucks. Probably the most angry period in my life throughout my 20s and early 30s learning how to accept those limitations. I’m kind of getting mad thinking about it now, thinking of all the opportunity this fucking thing has taken from me.