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Study: Motorcycles have same effect as light exercise and a cup of coffee

Post by toratora » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:39 pm

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Alexandra Villarreal wrote:FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Get ready to rev your engines: It’s time to ride like your mental and physical health depend on it.

There’s nothing quite like the wide open road, am I right?

Well actually, a recent study commissioned by Harley-Davidson suggests there are quite a few things that are similar to riding your motorcycle, and they may not be what you’d expect.

For a while now, motorcyclists have talked up the positives of their ride-or-die habit. But it’s been difficult to know how accurate their feelings were.

“Until recently, the technology to rigorously measure the impact of activities like motorcycling on the brain didn’t exist,” Dr. Don Vaughn, a neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the study’s research team leader, said in a press release.

But now, that technology does exist, so Vaughn was able to conduct his study. His results indicate that “riding increases attention by strengthening focus and heightening the brain’s passive monitoring of changes in the sensory environment while reducing the immediate stress response.”
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