
John Ratey
American professor
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Oct 6, 2026
1KHO 937: The Most Powerful Thing You Can Do For Your Brain | Dr. John Ratey, Spark
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5:37Ginny YurichHOST
And so that's a hard transition from high school to college and then into, into your life because maybe you don't have the opportunity to play team sports anymore.
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5:45John RateyGUEST
anymore.Right. No, the, uh, uh, the, the business with Naperville, for instance, is, uh, that, that zero hour was for one specific class for kids that were just having a hard time reading in, in their ninth grade.
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6:03John RateyGUEST
And, and so they offered this, uh, uh, exercise class for those who wanted to take it, uh, before school began.
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6:12John RateyGUEST
Uh, and so they came in, they did that, and, and they, uh, saw a, a tremendous increase and improvement in, uh, participation in their, their learning to read.
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6:24John RateyGUEST
I mean, what Naperville was famous for was that they had, had, they had PE every day, for one thing.
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The Science of Mental Fitness: Why Movement is Non-Negotiable | Dr John Ratey
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John RateyGUEST
You wouldn't have heard about it in the 90s because we didn't really know about it until the 2000s sometime, and early 2000s.

John RateyGUEST
And We didn't realize it until we started really looking at it as to how important it is for memory, how important it is for preserving the brain as we age and as we're stressing it in every other way.

John RateyGUEST
But BDNF is what I call the fertilizer for the brain, you know, and Miracle-Gro.

John RateyGUEST
When I said that, it was like, whoa, Miracle-Gro is a big fertilizer here in the States.
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