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Steven Blair, a professor of exercise science, epidemiology, and biostatistics at the University of South

Running has awarded me an accelerated degree in bodily intuition, thorough knowledge of all my vital functions—physical and psychic—and how they vary from context to context. I started out corporal-illiterate, accustomed to talking about my body and perceptions with childlike inaccuracy and approximation. Ever since I began to run, “I’m tired” has

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I now tell patients that exercise is, full stop and hands down, the best tool we have in the neurodegeneration prevention tool kit.

The goal of running training is to avoid having your brain write checks that your body can’t cash. Because when you overdraft as a runner, you get hurt. And when you get hurt, you lose some of what you worked so hard to gain.

Move more and track your progress by measuring improvements in your level of morning stiffness.