You might already know that grip strength has been linked to your health and even longevity, especially as you age.

Professor Xiaoping Hu, senior author of a new study linking brain activity and strength preservation, explained that, “Grip strength is more than just muscle.

“It’s a marker of how well your body and your brain are functioning as you get older.”

And as a part of his research, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, scientists looked at how the brain activity in older adults correlated to their grip strength.

They found that a little-known part of the brain, the caudate, seemed to be unusually highly linked to grip strength.

How does our brain relate to our grip strength?

In this study, researchers conducted MRI scans on older participants as they completed fitness tests.........

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