A.what is your experience with exercise and mood? Does exercise improve your mood?

If so, does it have to be a certain type, intensity, or duration of exercise?

If not, why do you think that is? Is exercise aversive/unpleasant for you?

Based on in personal experience, what are some tips you can offer people who would like to improve their mood with exercise?

B. please listen to this podcast about the placebo effect: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718227789

1) Can doctors and health care providers doa better job of taking advantage of the placebo effect to treat their patients?

2) What are the implications of the effect of placebos on clinical studies investigating the effects of exercise on psychiatric disorders?

3) What do you think the neurobiological (brain) mechanism is for the placebo effect?