Exercise Lowers Heart Disease Risk By Reducing Brain Activity Linked To Stress

This brain activity linked to stress was also lower in people who were more physically active, the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found.

Physical activity lowers risk of developing heart disease partly by reducing brain activity that gets triggered because of stress, new research has found.

This brain activity linked to stress was also lower in people who were more physically active, the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found.

Researchers found that lowering of such stress-related brain activity were driven by "gains in function" in the prefrontal cortex -- the region that helps in decision-making and adopting goal-oriented behaviour -- and is known to restrain brain stress centres of the brain.