Building muscle is protective against cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's and dementia.

“in fact one of the uh a study just came out i wasn't even in the book that shows that building muscle regardless of body weight building muscle uh improves insulin sensitivity regardless of body weight and now this is a very important thing because when we look at the uh the cognitive decline issues that we start now start to increase things like you know alzheimer's and dementia a big piece of that probably most likely has to do with our our issues with how we process sugars and glycogen and our sensitivity to insulin in fact some researchers call alzheimer's and dementia type 3 diabetes”