Performance Place Sports Care Podcast

SHOW NOTES BDNF means Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor. Neuroplasticity means the brain’s ability to change, in response to an external stimulus… for better or worse. In this session, Dr Michael Lovich helps us understand how we can increase our BDNF production with exercise (and some other ways) to improve healing during the rehab process. I met Dr. Lovich at a seminar in 2017. We talked about some new concepts surrounding rehab over a drink at the hotel bar. It was so interesting I thought we needed to hear more of his concepts on the show. Here’s some of his references: Receptors - Perreault et al 2013 https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/16/2/477/624474/A-physiological-role-for-the-dopamine-D5-receptor Dopamine and uncertainty - Steinberg et al 2013 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n7/abs/nn.3413.html Dopamine and uncertainty - Nasser et al 2017 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319959/ Exercise and BDNF - Ferris et al., 2007 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.4