Found a simple way to stop Alzheimer's disease

Regular exercise can prevent develop dementia, even those people who have this incurable disease lies in the genes. This conclusion was American scientists.

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Researchers from the University of Maryland found that physical exercise   at intervals of at least three times per week stop the process of reducing the brain, which usually precedes the start Alzheimer   and other dementias. Experts recommend that elderly people regularly swim, run, ride a bicycle and just do household chores - all this is beneficial.

During the one and a half years, the researchers studied the brain Activity from a group of pensioners, including those who had the gene APOE-e4, increases the risk of Alzheimer . Carefully follow the teachings of the amount of time spent on volunteers physical exercise . The reduction in the brain was observed only in those pensioners who paid physical activity little time or not paid at all, while still having the gene APOE-e4 (its carriers are 30% of the inhabitants of the Earth).

But the owners of the gene, which takes at least three once a week, they were protected from the reduction of the brain, and hence from dementia. The process of volume reduction occurs in the human brain with age, with area of ​​the hippocampus, responsible for memory, is particularly vulnerable at the people who have a genetic predisposition to a dementia.

Scientists emphasize that there is no other medicine a drug that could give such an amazing effect in slowing the process of reducing the brain than regular sports. (READ MORE)

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