4 Quotes & Sayings By Gretchen Reynolds

Gretchen Reynolds is a contributing writer at the "New York Times" and the author of "The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Fitter, and Longer." She is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a columnist for Psychology Today. From 2009 to 2011 she was an NPR health editor.

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If you move enough, your muscles change and grow. So does your mind. The brain initiates movement. But it is, in its turn, remade by movement. New cells are born; new vessels sprout. The same process operates body-­wide. No cell in your body is unaffected by motion. Your very DNA is changed. Gretchen Reynolds
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There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out. Gretchen Reynolds
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There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities. Gretchen Reynolds