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Episode #198: Your Brain On Exercise

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Is There a Relationship Between Cerebral Reserve and Cognitive Impairment?

There's a lot of plausible hypotheses and ways that you could come at this question, as far as how you would prove these things becomes more and more difficult. One of the interesting parts about this that cerebro reserve is that it may actually mask sort of pathology recognition because you don't get to a point where you're actually suffering until you've lost a critical mass of function and connectivity and stuff. It's kind of like sarcopenia. You're like, oh, you had all this muscle. And so you started, you know, something was happening, but we couldn't detect it because you were compensating so well. Yeah, yeah. If people do worse, they feel like

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