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Running Gives Your Brain a Boost

A recent study published in London's Journal of Physiology shows that running can help you develop massive cognitive gains. Running activates and enhances neuron reserves in the human brain, which are central to the brain's capacity to learn, the study shows. Bonus: running can actually multiply those reserves more than other kinds of high-intensity resistance training. Boom!

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