Real Happy Pill: Power Up Your Brain by Moving Your Body

Exercise is the absolute best thing for ones health, and acquainting yourself with the mechanisms of its beneficial effects reinforces the motivation to go and do it!

The Real Happiness Pill is outstanding. It's one of the best books on how excercise is good for the brain ( and the body ). It's very informative to say the least. This book is well researched and thorough. If you get this book you're making an investment in your health.

This book shows a very clear connection between exercise and certain health issues like stress, ADHD and healthy aging of the brain. I bought it for the latter reason and found it quite useful. I did find a lot of repetition in the book. However, this is due in part to the author citing various studies showing links between exercise, usually walking or interval training, and improvements in each topic/chapter under discussion. I read it straight through but as it has a table of contents it is possible to click on the chapter you are concerned with e.g. stress and read what the author, Anders Hansen, has to say about the importance of exercise and training in coping with stress. I feel it would have been a lot shorter if he hadn't gone into so much detail for each topic but this may be what others find useful. In summary he made a very good argument for adopting a routine of regular walking as a way of improving many modern day health issues from stress to aging . I found it very heartening that something so simple could be so effective.

This book was amazing. If there's a book I can recommend on why movement is the best drug then this is it. Great read and easy to follow.

Excellent to reafirm that training is good for the brain with a nice an easy and understandable reading of such complex subject

Read japanese version, very impressive. why no Kindle version for english? i want my children to read (they can not read japanese)

wonderful information. So powerful

Really eye opening and timely

Gets you thinking of what your brain goes through it was recommended from a freind and I recommend it to anyone never judge your brain what ut can or can not do

If you need impressive motivation backed by science to finally taking physical activity seriously (specially running), this is the book you are looking for.

Es steht viel wissenswertes in diesem Buch, nicht nur für Sportler. Jemand der gestresst oder Depressiv ist sollte es lesen. Es könnte vielleicht helfen.

This book provided such a good overview into how the brain works.I personally could relate to quite a few of the examples and I am now really inspired to focus much more on my exercise, with my new appreciation of the benefits which are far more than fitness alone, such as improvement to my memory, concentration, stress management and so much more.I will reread again really soon!

Very informative- fact not opinion based in layman’s terms