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Most people think brain health lives in the head.

Neurons. Neurotransmitters. Sleep. Supplements. Puzzles.

Important—but incomplete.

One of the most powerful regulators of brain health doesn’t live in the skull at all. It lives in your muscles.

Skeletal muscle is an endocrine signaling organ. Every purposeful contraction sends chemical, metabolic, and vascular messages to the brain—signals that support plasticity, blood flow, immune balance, and energy stability.

As muscle is trained, those signals strengthen. As muscle is lost with age, those signals fade.

That loss isn’t cosmetic. It’s neurological.

You can’t separate brain health from muscle health. You can’t talk about neuroplasticity without talking about movement.

Train the muscle. Support the signal. Protect the brain.

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Strength Training for the Nervous System: The Forgotten Organ of Brain Health
Jan 14
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