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Exercising your brain keeps it young and fit as much as exercising your body does. Many studies have shown that what applies to muscles also applies to brains: If you don’t use it, you lose it.
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A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.
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Your lifetime risk for dementia is literally cut in half if you participate in physical activity… With Alzheimer’s the effect is even greater…
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For both depression and anxiety, exercise is beneficial immediately and over the long term.
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All the evidence points in one direction: Physical activity is cognitive candy.
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When combined with the intellectual benefits exercise appears to offer, we have in our hands as close to a magic bullet for improving human health as exists in modern medicine.
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…feelings can be likened to muscles – the more intensively you stay with the exercise, closing the door on escape, the more emotional heavy lifting you can do.
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…if you make exercise a vitally important part of your life, a lot of other things will magically fall into place.
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