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Brain Rules:
There is an unbroken intellectual line between symbolic reasoning and the ability to create culture.
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007 |
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Brain Rules:
One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle.
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023 |
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Brain Rules:
A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.
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024 |
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Brain Rules:
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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026 |
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Brain Rules:
For both depression and anxiety, exercise is beneficial immediately and over the long term.
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026 |
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Brain Rules:
All the evidence points in one direction: Physical activity is cognitive candy.
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031 |
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Brain Rules:
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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032 |
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Brain Rules:
If you embrace the need to nap rather than pushing through… your brain will work better afterward.
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046 |
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Brain Rules:
Cumulative [sleep] losses during the week add up to cumulative deficits during the weekend – and, if not paid for, that sleep debt will be carried into the next week.
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047 |
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Brain Rules:
…studies show that sleep loss cripples thinking in just about every way you can measure thinking.
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048 |
