Nothing wrong with wanting to look good. But even if you don’t care about how you look, it impacts how you feel.
Get leaner = more energy and libido.
Plenty of mental health benefits such as stress and anxiety reduction.
Longevity
You don’t get chronic disease. While you can’t put your risk of cancer at zero, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic conditions are completely avoidable. And they’re reversible.
You don’t see a lot of overweight people 70-80+ with good quality of life…
Muscle
No, you don’t need to be a bodybuilder. You don’t need to spend multiple hours in the gym. But know that we all lose muscle as we age… unless you’re strategic about it.
You don’t need big bulging biceps. But you want to be relatively muscular.
Cardio
Any exercise is better than no exercise.
The thing about cardio is that it’s inefficient, doesn’t build muscle, and tends to make you hungrier.
If you nail the muscle-building piece… you get the cardiovascular exercise with it
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Cholesterol is so important for brain health that the brain has its own synthetic machinery for making it.
The brain is only 2% of body weight yet contains as much as 25% of the body's cholesterol.
Blood levels of total and LDL cholesterol are lower in Parkinson's disease patients.
Ferritin (iron) levels are higher.
[PMID: 21282940]
Some statins, those that are lipophilic, can penetrate the blood brain barrier.
The effects of these statins has been described as "pleiotropic", meaning they do lots of things; since they lower cholesterol, presumably many of these things are not good.