Balanced bilateral movement activates both sides of your brain equally, increasing oxygen-rich blood flow to each hemisphere. This promotes new neuron and synapse growth and thickens the corpus callosum, the bridge between brain halves. Neglecting one side is like half-watering a garden.
So what, what do you think? I mean, in layman's terms, what, what's going on in the brain? What's going on neurologically when we start to balance our right and left dominant sides? And, uh, are we building new pathways? Are we, you know, waking up pathways that have been dormant? Or what do you think's going on?
So what's going on, the layman of it, when you move, for example, your left hand like this, or the left side of your body, your right brain hemisphere is what is firing off. The opposite's true when you move your right hand, your left brain hemisphere is what's firing off. And what's happening is you're sending blood flow to both brain hemispheres more evenly. Within that blood flow is oxygen. That oxygen provides new neurons, new synapses, makes the corpus callosum thicker. And, um, what I'd actually like to share— I'll, I'll plug my own book here, Big 3 MMD, because I think that I, uh, explain here pretty on page 50. So when your body is engaged in equal bilateral exercise, blood flow flows to both brain, uh, both sides of the brain. This blood flow provides oxygen that grows new neurons, new synapses within the cerebral cortex, motor strip, and hippocampus. This also thickens the brain's corpus callosum, which is the fibrous communication bridge at the center of your brain and crossing point of all bilateral activity. So I, I go on and say more, more on this. This is the whole chapter on the science of MND. So there you go. Plug for my book. You really wanna know even more folks, you can get the book.
It sounds like, you know, if we neglect, I mean, in very simple terms, we neglect the garden, only half the side gets proper nutrition and treatment and water, and the left side is kind of withering. Let's water the wet left side and see how that springs to life. And that a very simple metaphor, but it seems like that's what we're doing. We're getting blood flow to both sides of the brain, that bilateral setup.
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