Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hope you're hanging in there. I got a great show

plan for you. You're going to be talking about all sorts of stuff, a little bit of a COVID update.

We're going to be talking about grief and loss. Got some fun stuff too, though. We got the

question of the night, as always up into the Loveline DMs.

But I wanted to start by talking about exercise. We need to move our bodies. We talk all the time about how we're sitting a lot.

But let's talk about the connection between exercise and mental health. Now, as always, I've said, exercises any form of moving your body. It can be old school elementary-based

kinds of play. It can be movement, dance, yoga, stretching, all sorts of things. But we definitely,

definitely, definitely, for a mental health, want to engage in frequent movement. We are not doing

what we're seeing online where people are talking about, you know, COVID weight, gain, or loss.

We're staying outside of that.

That is not mental health.

We are not assessing what our bodies look like.

We're not talking about other people's bodies.

We're really moving away from that.

We're truly coming back to the idea of I just want to have the best mental health possible and knowing that moving my body is related

to that.

What am I going to be gaining?

Well, the first one is memory.

I love this.

Memory is a part of aging that people are most scared about losing their memory, right?

And exercise can really help protect our memory as we age.

In fact, it helps prevent the loss of total brain

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