Why Exercise.. The Best Way To Protect & Improve Your Brain!!

Hesham Mashhour
8 min readMay 28, 2021

If you’re over a certain age then you probably will be a little surprised, maybe even saddened, to hear that a vital part of your brain shrinks a little every year.

The hippocampus, central to your ability to remember information and learn new amazing things, shrinks by about 1–2% each year.

And that’s if you’re completely healthy. But it doesn’t just stop there.

Middle aged people experience a progressive decline in blood flow to the brain — so much so that by the time you’ve reached your golden years you can expect to find 30% less blood reaching your brain.

This effectively starves the brain and gets in the way of it being able to adequately clear out the toxic waste that begins to accumulate.

There is one thing, however, that I can think of that increases blood flow to the brain..

Let me introduce you to the wonderful brain enhancing effects of physical exercise.

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Hesham Mashhour

Cambridge Graduate. I write about #health #medicine and will occasionally share my thoughts about the latest #music and trash coming out of #Netflix