You haven’t run for a while and when you finally do a few laps, your lungs are burning and your heart races. Or perhaps it’s been a long time between gym sessions and the morning after a workout, every muscle in your body aches – even muscles you never knew you had …
If we don’t use our muscles regularly, they get weaker and don’t work as well. Our brain is also a muscle and if we don’t keep using it, at some point we may start to lose brain power, too. Cognition or how we think, how fast we think, and our memory are controlled by our brain and these functions start to deteriorate
