Exercise

Gain encouragement by learning about the numerous brain benefits of easy, daily exercise, such as the 2010 study involving patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment The subjects performed aerobic exercise for 45 to 60 minutes a day, four days a week for six months.

The control group was told to stretch for similar time periods.

The good news? The exercise group improved

their memory test scores! They got better!

The control group,

unfortunately but unsurprisingly, declined.

Previous dogma maintained that once you were an adult, you had all the brain cells you were ever going to get, so good luck. We now know this is not true.

You can grow new brain cells and make new connections between existing cells. And exercise is a great way to make that happen.