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Exercise: Your Favorite Wellness Episode!

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The Effect of Exercise on the Brain

Exercise is linked to a lower risk of getting many kinds of cancers. The strongest evidence is for colon, breast and endometrial cancer. There's some exciting new work suggesting that exercise could protect our brain in the future by cooking up brand new brain cells. We need more research to know if exercise really can get all the credit for the lower rates of dementia.

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