Deans' stroke musings: Happier People Live More Active Lives: Using Smartphones to Link Happiness and Physical Activity

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Happier People Live More Active Lives: Using Smartphones to Link Happiness and Physical Activity

What precisely is the happiness protocol your doctor has for you? And not just exercise more since your doctor did nothing to prevent a lot of the damage by stopping the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week. Thus leaving you too disabled to easily exercise.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160589

Published: January 4, 2017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160589

Abstract

Physical activity, both exercise and non-exercise, has far-reaching benefits to physical health. Although exercise has also been linked to psychological health (e.g., happiness), little research has examined physical activity more broadly, taking into account non-exercise activity as well as exercise. We examined the relationship between physical activity (measured broadly) and happiness using a smartphone application. This app has collected self-reports of happiness and physical activity from over ten thousand participants, while passively gathering information about physical activity from the accelerometers on users' phones. The findings reveal that individuals who are more physically active are happier. Further, individuals are happier in the moments when they are more physically active. These results emerged when assessing activity subjectively, via self-report, or objectively, via participants' smartphone accelerometers. Overall, this research suggests that not only exercise but also non-exercise physical activity is related to happiness. This research further demonstrates how smartphones can be used to collect large-scale data to examine psychological, behavioral, and health-related phenomena as they naturally occur in everyday life.

Citation: Lathia N, Sandstrom GM, Mascolo C, Rentfrow PJ (2017) Happier People Live More Active Lives: Using Smartphones to Link Happiness and Physical Activity. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0160589. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160589