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5 Ways Exercise Affects Your Memory

3.Exercise increases the size of your hippocampus

Exercise boosts “interference memory” | Life 360 Tips

The hippocampus is the part of your brain that controls not only your long-term memory, but also your “semantic” processes, such as emotions, senses, and so on. Studies have found that exercise literally increasesthe size of your hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for transferring short-term memories into long-term memories. You literally can’t form new memories without the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a tiny part of your brain, but it carries a lot of responsibility, so the more you can give it physically, the more it will give you back mentally.

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