It’s a new year, and many people are re-committing to lifestyle changes that include exercise.  Here’s yet another reason to get your body moving and create a new lifestyle:  a study from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases that was published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings and summarized in Neuroscience News shows that increases in peak oxygen intake–a result of cardiovascular exercise–is strongly associated with increases in gray matter volume.  A decline in gray matter volume in the brain is associated with age-related cognitive decline, and researchers believe that this adds more evidence to the growing indicators which point to exercise maintaining brain health and cognitive abilities.

You can read more about this in Neuroscience News at https://neurosciencenews.com/exercise-gray-matter-15374/. And, you can read the Mayo Clinic article about the study here.