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Want to enjoy a range of cognitive and mental health benefits? Start building up healthy muscles. Here’s why.

Muscle tissue communicates directly with the brain and other organs through chemicals called myokines.

You're probably underestimating your muscles. In fact, almost everyone does. While everyone knows, for instance, that muscles are important foractivities such as walking, climbing, and lifting—few appreciate just how important muscles are forIf you haven't noticed this mood-muscle connection yourself, take heart; it is only a recent discovery.

The latter seems important to remember the next time you don't feel like eating your vegetables. Digested to the smallest denominator, nutrients are converted by mitochondria—arguably the VIP citizens of your cells—into billions of adenosine triphosphate molecules per minute. Although even an ordinary cell may house thousands of these energy-producing mitochondria, muscle cells are mitochondrial beehives, possessing tens or even hundreds of thousands to power their operations.

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