Learning new physical skills or cognitive information maintains healthy neural architecture.

“Now, I certainly don't want to give the message that just moving, just exercise is sufficient to keep the neural architecture of your brain healthy, young, and able to learn. While that might be true, it's also important to actually engage in attempts to learn new material, either physical material, so new types of movements and skills and/or new types of cognitive information languages mathematics history, uh current events, uh all sorts of things um that involve your brain.”