stress and anxiety-related risk41 seem more significant in females. As we’ll see in chapter 11, endurance exercise produces factors that directly target regions of the brain responsible for cognition and memory. It also helps lower inflammation and oxidative stress. Strength training is likely just as important. A study looking at nearly half a million patients in the United Kingdom found that grip strength, an excellent proxy42 for overall strength, was strongly and inversely associated with the incidence of dementia (see figure 8
