Shrink Wrap Radio is a weekly podcast interviewing various luminaries in the field of psychiatry and the brain.  In this episode, Dr Dave interviews Dr John Ratey, about “miracle grow” for the brain aka exercise!

It’s a little bit geeky at the beginning but well worth a listen.

“There is just a flock of evidence for the benefits for depression, anxiety, panic disorder. Part of what the real message is, is that if you activate your brain with exercise, you’re gonna release a lot of the neurotransmitters we aim with in psychopharmacology, you know, our drugs that we use, serotonin drugs, dopamine drugs, neurepinephrine drugs, all tend to try we think to elevate the levels of these neurotransmitters. Well exercise does that pretty quickly!”