Jim Kwik argues the brain's main job is controlling movement, not thinking. He describes how crawling babies develop balance and somatic awareness, then explains why resistance training boosts dopamine, serotonin, and BDNF while cutting inflammation. Dance, martial arts, and chi machines fuse mind and body most effectively.
The number one reason why we have a brain is to control our movement. And it's not just a mind body connection. There's certainly a body mind connection in terms of helping development. I'm seeing this with our 10 month old when he started to crawl and do those kind of cross laterals and get his somatic awareness and his balance. Dance is something that is interesting. I like things like martial arts where I take my mind and I have to kind of put it into my body. It's because of you though that I have a lot of the chi machines and the, you know, the fancy thing because time is of the essence so I, I really don't want to spend, you know, hours upon hours in, in the gym every single week. You're, you're an Upgrade Labs fan. Oh yeah, that was, I think I was your first client in Santa Monica. I think you were tested everything for three months with your amazing expert staff. But yeah, it's just the physicality of it. I, I've done martial arts my whole life so it's, it's, that's somewhere that feels very good, good for me. And then, but resistance training, whether it's the Rx or team or any of the things that you have at Upgrade, this is important. I mean it helps with your neurotransmitter. Dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, reduce bdnf. Your brain derived neurotropic factors could help lower systemic inflammation. I mean there's so many benefits that come from physical exercise.
