Exercise To Prevent Alzheimer's

Swedish scientists found that people who engaged in "leisure time physical activity" at least twice a week as they passed through middle age had a 50 percent lower chance of developing dementia, and a 60 percent lower chance of developing Alzheimer’s, when compared with their more sedentary colleagues, says a study published in October, 2005, in Lancet Neurology.

And Exercise Creates New Brain Cells!

Yes, really. Through a special MRI imaging technique, researchers at Columbia University were able to watch “neurogenesis,” that is, the growth of neurons or nerve cells, within a living person’s brain. And it happened right after exercise.

So exercise doesn’t just “clear the brain.” It adds to the brain while preventing Alzheimer’s.