By www.iHeartToby.com Apr 21, 2021 Procrastinating on your spring cleaning? You may want to pick up that mop and get busy because new research finds doing household chores is good for our brains. It turns out, tasks like washing dishes, doing laundry and working in the yard can actually boost brain health. In the new study from Baycrest Hospital’s Rotman Research Institute in Toronto researchers gave participants a health evaluation, brain imaging and a cognitive test to check mental capacities. The results show that older adults who regularly do housework have larger brains - which is a strong predictor of cognitive health. And those who spent more time on chores had bigger brains, regardless of how much exercise they do.