20/10/2025
🏃🏻♂️🏃🏼🏃🏽♀️Running won’t solve everything, but it’s a great start to feeling better.”🏃🏾♀️➡️🏃🏼➡️🏃🏻♂️➡️
Could exercise actually help the brain forget traumatic memories? A recent study suggests it can. Consistent physical activity promotes neurogenesis the creation of new neurons especially in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory hub.
By integrating new neurons into existing circuits, exercise can weaken or disrupt older, maladaptive memories, offering a potential way to ease the recall of trauma.
Exercise also boosts BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), strengthening existing neurons while supporting new growth. At the same time, it enhances the prefrontal cortex, improving focus, emotional control, and stress regulation.
For trauma survivors, activities like running can do more than build fitness they can help regain a sense of control over the body and mind, an essential step in processing difficult experiences.
The science is still evolving, but the link between movement and memory is becoming impossible to ignore.
