**Being fit is negatively correlated with lowered brain function with age… a lot.** The best thing you can do for yourself for your brain health is to do the stuff that you'd normally think to do for your heart. Move regularly. Avoid [[Chronic Inactivity]]. Don't eat too much sugar. It's not simply cardiovascular exercise that helps, but instead a varied fitness regiment including cardiovascular endurance, interval training, weightlifting, and mobility/flexibility training. People who stay consistently fit for life, who meet and even exceed the [[Ideal Exercise Regiment|recommended 150 minutes/week]] recommendation are the least likely to suffer cognitive declines into their later years. Overly sugary diets cause the blood to be too saturated with [[blood sugar]]. This causes our cells to be less receptive to the sugar in our blood which basically throws our whole system out of whack. # Tribal example An indigenous tribe in the rainforests of the Amazon river has no evidence of heart disease, diabetes, or dementia. They eat about 70% carbs (unprocessed) 15% fat, 15% protein. They walk about 17,000 steps a day (not run). They sleep and wake with the sun. This example was covered in [[Keep Sharp]], but was also touched on in [[Good Energy (book)]]. **** # More ## Source - [[Keep Sharp]] - [[Good Energy (book)]] ## Related - [[Ideal Exercise Regiment]] - [[Alzheimer’s is “Type 3 Diabetes”]] - [[Alzheimer’s & Brain Inflammation]] - [[Anti-inflammatory Behavior]]