"if exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most prescribed and beneficial medicine"

Indeed it seems exercising may have a long list of healthy benefits:

• Longer life [12, 13]
• Better cognitive function [1, 7, 9]
• Better executive function (willpower) [2]
• Inhibitory control (rationality) [3]
• Less depression & more happiness [4]
• Less anxiety [4]
• Slow dementia [6, 10]
• Avoid and even reverse diabetes [8, 11]
• Reduce cardiovascular diseases [5]
• Reduce cholesterol [5]