Playing a game of pickleball a day may just keep the doctor away - San Angelo Standard-Times

Everyone understands regular physical exercise is good for our bodies, but it is also vital to our brains. These bodies, in which our brains are housed, are meant to move and moving increases oxygenation. The importance of oxygenation, the act of bringing oxygen to all of our cells, can’t be underestimated. Consider this: the brain uses about three times as much oxygen as muscles do, so the biggest effect of exercise just might be on the brain.

At the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health (LWBIWH), we understand the power of brain-body aerobics and are ever mindful of creating opportunities so multiple minds can work out together. To that end, we are encouraging people to “move it, move it, move it” by introducing pickleball to San Angelo.

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