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> as exercise is a nootropic and smart people are healthier. Not great examples. Source #1 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/move/how-exercise-may-help-
by autoexec 4y ago
> as exercise is a nootropic and smart people are healthier.
Not great examples. Source #1 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/move/how-exercise-may-help-the-memory-grow-stronger.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/move/how-exercise-ma...) says "And of course, mice are not people, and it is impossible to know if the same changes occur in our synapses when we exercise." and source #2 (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-do-smart-people-live-longer?barrier=accesspaylog https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-do-smart-pe...) says that smart people tend to live longer and they list several reasons for that including a lower accident and homicide rates. One contributing factor was that smart people are less likely to have certain health problems like high blood pressure and cholesterol that can kill people later in life. It's a big leap from that to smart people are healthier.
- Retric 4y agoThe correlation goes the other way as there is a very long list of health problems that lower cognitive performance. The population of everyone without Down syndrome is both smarter and healthier than the total population. That extends to things we don’t think of as lowering intelligence like high blood pressure: https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/high-blood-pressure-linked-cognitive-decline https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/high-blood-pressure-linked-cogn...