Regular exercise lowers cortisol and adrenaline, calming your fight-or-flight response and easing PTSD symptoms. It also improves how you show up for your spouse and kids. The speaker argues exercise is a responsibility to the people you love, not just yourself.
Hey, how you going? Hey, Mel prepared great notes on why exercise reduces stress naturally. It's got all the science and all that stuff, and it's going to be posted down below. But let me just tell you why you need to exercise. It's because you're probably a total dick if you don't. You know, when we're in our head all the time with PTSD, we don't like ourselves, we don't like anybody. And what exercise does is it reduces the stress, reduces the cortisol, deals with the adrenaline, the fight-or-flight urge, and just puts us into a much mellower space. So the fundamental reason you should exercise is so you feel better about yourself and you can feel better about those around you. If you don't have the discipline to exercise for you, then please consider having the discipline to exercise for those that love you, because it makes you a better person to live with, makes you be able to interact with them, have something to give them. So that's my take on it. I don't exercise for you. I enjoy exercise. But what I enjoy is the result of that exercise— my ability to be able to connect with my wife, communicate with my kids, and not stab someone else in the throat.
