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#8: Exercise

Minding the Brain

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Alzheimer's Disease - Is There a Risk of Dementia?

There are some studies. One of the most recent papers actually, a really interesting meta-analysis. And what they found was that adults that maintain regular exercise, aerobic exercise, and then you scan them later in life, the main benefit seems to be it staves off the normal age-related decline in the volume of our brain region known as the hippocampus.

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