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Jogging, swimming, bicycling or any exercise that gets your heart pumping and your lungs working a little harder may also benefit your brain’s gray matter, too. A German study of more than 2,000 adults found that greater cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with increased gray matter volume and total brain volume. The volume of gray matter […]