By improving how muscles use and store energy, creatine may influence myokines that support cognition, mood, and neural ...

A new study has found body fat and muscle mass are strongly linked to apparent brain age. The benefits of exercise on brain health is already widely researched. The Alzheimer’s Association says ...

Your brain doesn’t improve with routine alone—real growth happens when you push it, recover, and repeat.

Brain age is the computational estimation of chronological age from a structural MRI scan of the brain. Muscle mass, as tracked by body MRI, can be a surrogate marker for various interventions to ...

A cascade of beneficial effects hits the brain during exercise — with new data on strength training. Helping your patients ...

While fat can be found throughout the body, past studies show one of the most potentially harmful areas to have fat accumulation is within the abdominal area. Now a new study recently presented at the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Lifting weights does more than make you physically stronger: It could be a win for your brain health, too ...

New research presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that having more muscle and less visceral fat may help keep the brain younger as measured by biological ...

Grow your muscle, grow your brain. For decades it’s getting clearer—physical activity leads to more brain cells. But how? And why? A recent paper in Cell Metabolism shows the advantages of ...

Researchers report that certain movement-related symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease may originate in the peripheral nervous system rather than the brain.