Peter Attia

The single most powerful item in our preventive tool kit is exercise, which has a two-pronged impact on Alzheimer’s disease risk: it helps maintain glucose homeostasis, and it improves the health of our vascula

As we’ll see in chapter 11, endurance exercise produces factors that directly target regions of the brain responsible for cognition and memory.

grip strength, an excellent proxy for overall strength, was strongly and inversely associated with the incidence of dementia