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Can you defeat Alzheimer's Disease with Exercise?
By Michael Pickering
Can You Defeat Alzheimer's Disease With Exercise?
No one knows the answer to this, but some very promising
research coming out of the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies in La Jolla, CA sounds exciting.
Now this research was performed on mice and mice are not
humans. However, there are many similarities on the
cellular level that all of us in the animal kingdom share.
There have been many studies on mice that have helped the
development of research on understanding how the human body
works.
This study took older mice (the equivalent of 70 years old
in human life) and trained them to do an underwater task.
There was also a group of younger mice (about 20 years old
in human life) that was trained on the task as well.
The researchers then divided the older mice into two groups.
One group did exercise on a running wheel every day for 30
days. The other group did no exercise.
The younger mice group also exercised every day for 30 days.
At the end of the 30 days the underwater task was repeated.
The older mice group that did not exercise flunked
miserably. None of them remembered how to do the task.
Not even one.
On the other hand all of the younger mice did very well.
The exciting part of the study was the fact that the older
mice that exercised performed the task just as well as the
younger mice.
On analysis the researchers found that the older mice that
exercised had significantly more new cells in the
hypothalamus.
This is the part of the brain that helps with memory and
the ability to learn new tasks.
Now does this mean that exercise will help replace the cells
in the hypothalamus that Alzheimer's and other brain
destroying diseases destroy?
Again, no one knows yet. However, this is exciting news.
If simple exercise can make any kind of difference in
keeping our mind young and active and possibly keeping
Alzheimer's at bay, then exercise should be a part of your
life.
So if you haven't gotten out there and started exercising
yet, do so now.
Does it have to be jogging or lifting weights or going to
the gym? No, just start moving and do it every day.
But, you don't have time, so many of you say. Well, yes
this is true, if you feel that you have to exercise 2 or 3
hours a day like so many fitness gurus say.
That is pure nonsense. Your main goal is to raise your
metabolism so that you are burning fat and building muscle.
You can do this in a very short time.
You can learn how astronauts and Bulgarian weightlifters
(some of the strongest people pound for pound on the earth)
train for only minutes at a time.
If you would like to find out more and how a simple 7
minute routine will keep you motivated and help keep those
brain cells active, just check out this web site:
http://www.getrealfitnessrevolution.com.
About the Author
Mike Pickering has been teaching diet and fitness for over 35 years. He now writes a newsletter and articles like this one:
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