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Exercise: Your Favorite Wellness Episode!

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The Link Between Exercise and Dementia

Exercise literally stimulates the birth of brand new brain cells. In rodents, running triggers the release of what are called growth factors. And they can stimulate the birth of baby brain cells. Wendy says that this is all happening in a very particular area of the brain called the hippocampus - important for memory.

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