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#89 - Protecting your brain

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How Can Muscle Mass Affect Your Brain?

The more muscle mass you have prior to a draumatic brain injury or severe illness, the better yor recovery. A study at the u.K. Bi bank saw a positive correlation between the amount of muscle mass you had and a measure called fluid intelligence. The more muscle massyou have, the more gray matter, in particular, you have on an em or iy scan,. Things that don't matter as much, are you absolutely ami, your body fat percentage, don't correlate with your brain mass but your muscle mass does.

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