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Medicine 3.0: Extending Human Lifespan with Dr. Peter Attia

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The Importance of Exercise for Brain Health

Exercise is still the most important intervention we have for brain health as well. Anything that deprives so just take a step back. The brain is like 2% of your body weight and 25% of your metabolic demand. So anything that compromises any bit of its metabolic fitness is disastrous. It's why small vessel disease type 2 diabetes anything that compromises that aspect of the brain is devastating with respect to dementia.

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