Max Lugavere

So that's number one, protect your head.

Number two, I would say regularly exercising.

The evidence is so strongly now in favor of exercise as a way of helping to shield the body against cognitive decline and dementia with the asterisk being that there is no silver bullet and you can still do everything quote unquote right and still unfortunately one day be diagnosed.

We don't have all the answers.

That's what we're working towards.

But

I do exercise most days.

I think my resistance training regimen, I've got dialed down to four to five days a week.

On days that I'm not resistance training, I just try to move and do something that I really enjoy outside of the gym.

But yeah, doing what I can to...

promote the health of my skeletal muscle and strength.

Size and strength both matter.

They're both correlated, but independent variables.

And so I try to train for both.

And that's because having a robust amount of skeletal muscle, which becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as we get older, it's really important for helping to fight off obesity, helping to fight off even overweight.

helping to fight off insulin resistance, which might one day lead to type 2 diabetes.

Not that I'm at risk for that, but it's just a great way to kind of nurture all of the many processes in the body that directly reward the brain.

Insulin sensitivity, healthy glucose levels, healthy blood pressure.

All super important stuff.

And then of course, there are the mental benefits of exercise.