Brain Health Transcript

00:00 : And also, brain health. Anybody here ever experience a situation where a loved one develops dementia? I know that’s what happened to my mom. The last five years of her life, she went from being here to not being here. It’s very hard and there’s nothing we can do, except we can prevent. 100%, no.  But 50%, yes. Unbelievably, and they really didn’t think this was true until very recently. A whole lot of studies coming out showing that fitness promotes brain health and substantially reduces the risk of dementia. There’s several studies referenced in your handout; here’s just one. This came out in March this year.  Longitudinal Relationship Between Caloric Expenditure and Gray Matter.  Fitness produced more gray matter, larger brain volume, which correlated with a 50% reduction of memory decline or developing Alzheimer’s.