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Category Archives: exercise
Alzheimer’s disease: omega-3 and exercise – the complexity of treatment
Fish and/or exercise to help Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease background: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading neurodegenerative dementia disorder. In most cases Alzheimer’s does not appear until after the [..]
Are there differences between physical and cognitive aging?
Does physical decline directly mirror cognitive decline? In a previous post I pointed out how after the age of 25 the brain is losing a proportion of its [..]
Can you teach an old dog new tricks – or at least juggling – and increase gray matter density in the brain ?
Image via Wikipedia You might, or might not, be an old dog – but we all want to be able keep on learning and ‘growing’. Yesterday, I wrote [..]
Learn juggling to increase your gray matter – but don’t stop
Image via Wikipedia Maybe being a court jester is not all bad – you get to play music, which increases your brain’s gray matter and improves your general [..]
Exercise for healthy new neurons: even in middle age
Here is a follow-up to my Monday post on the quick rebound from an exercise layoff in the important brain health protein brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A new [..]
A layoff results in aerobic deconditioning what about the brain?
I have previously written a few times about how quickly deconditioning of aerobic fitness occurs after an exercise layoff (see here and here), but what about brain health? [..]
The testing of a new sirt1 activator: SRT1720
SRT1720 is a sirt1 activator and the new hope for a calorie restriction mimicker, which may lead to an increase in human lifespan. Resveratrol (which I have written [..]
Exercise training and muscle energy efficiency
I am always encouraging people to exercise for the general and brain health. Research has demonstrated that exercise obviously improves muscle function and your performance. Additionally, while exercising [..]
Moderation
Today’s piece is not high level neurobiology, more like some thoughts on simple everyday approach to life. I have written previously about the importance of consistency in regards [..]
How saving money is different, but also similar, to your exercise investment
You might be scratching your head over my title but hopefully it will make sense at the end. We all now the importance of exercise for both our [..]
