Working on your muscles could help delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms, researchers have revealed.
Researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo and the University of São Paulo in Brazil have uncovered strong evidence that– where muscles are worked against a weight or a force – could have significant consequences for the brains of dementia patients.
Before you hurriedly renew your gym membership or break out the home exercise equipment, it's worth bearing in mind that this was"This confirms that physical activity can reverse neuropathological alterations that cause clinical symptoms of the disease,"Mice with a genetic mutation that causes beta-amyloid plaques to build up in the brain –– were put through a four-week resistance exercise training program involving ladders and weights before being compared to mice without the...
Not only was the build-up of plaques reduced after exercise, levels of the hormone corticosterone in the plasma of the weight-training mice were similar to plasma levels in mice from the control group. Corticosterone equates to cortisol in humans, which is produced when the body is under stress, and has been
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