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Exercise and Sleep: The Better Brain Therapies Your Child Needs
Science has finally agreed that the brain is malleable and “plastic.” This means that the brain can, to a surprising extent, reinvent itself with learning, experience, or the right stimulation. This reinvention is called “epigenetic” — the biological process by which life experiences can override, add to, or interact with what genes do, changing how we feel, think, or behave.Besides nutrition, exercise is particularly relevant to growing the parts of the brain that strengthen self-regulation and executive function, and can help to counteract or improve attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD).