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View a daily walk or other fitness activity as essential to your brain health, and also try to limit how much you sit: Adults between the ages of 45 to 75 who sit for three to seven hours each day have a substantial thinning of their temporal lobe, which is where the brain forms new memories, according to Small's own 2018 study. Not only have studies linked low physical activity with higher dementia risk, but regularly exercising helps boost your immune system, which may provide additional protection against COVID-19, notes Gary Small, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center. But as the Global Council report stresses, physical activity is vital to maintain cognition in adults, particularly older ones. So many of us are spending more time at home and are not yet comfortable returning to a gym or fitness studio. It's easy to be a couch potato these days. What you need to know about covid-19 vaccines Keep - or get - active Here, from the council and its brain-health experts, are other ways you can keep your brain resilient during the pandemic. Doing so can protect your brain from the virus's potential neurological harm, and may well save your life - especially if you're over 65. 1 is not surprising: Consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible, and be sure to complete all required doses and keep following CDC guidelines. The council also wanted to address some of the negative effects of the isolation that many people are experiencing,” explains council chair Marilyn Albert, professor of neurology and director of the division on cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Even though there is much still to be learned about how COVID-19 affects our thinking, the GCBH wanted everyone to know this is a well-recognized problem, and emphasize that there are ways to address the health of their brain during the pandemic. "People know that COVID-19 is a disease that affects the lungs, but they are not as aware that it can affect the brain as well.