Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia (▻https://n.neu...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11393100
Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia | #alcohol #alzheimer #cognition #diet #exercise #health #lifestyle #mentalhealth #smoking
Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia (▻https://n.neu...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11393100
Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia | #alcohol #alzheimer #cognition #diet #exercise #health #lifestyle #mentalhealth #smoking
Why Your Brain Needs #Exercise - Scientific American
▻https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise
It is by now well established that exercise has positive effects on the brain, especially as we age.
Less clear has been why physical activity affects the brain in the first place.
Key events in the evolutionary history of humans may have forged the link between exercise and brain function.
Cognitively challenging exercise may benefit the brain more than physical activity that makes fewer cognitive demands.
Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefini...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7117727
Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefining the Impact of Exercise on Immunological Health Across the Lifespan | Immunology | #exercise #immunity
#Exercise Alters Our #Microbiome. Is That One Reason It’s So Good for Us? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/well/move/exercise-microbiome-health-weight-gut-bacteria.html
Most of these changes were not shared from one person to the next. Everyone’s gut responded uniquely to exercise.
But there were some similarities, the researchers found. In particular, they noted widespread increases in certain microbes that can help to produce substances called short-chain fatty acids. These fatty acids are believed to aid in reducing inflammation in the gut and the rest of the body. They also work to fight insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes, and otherwise bolster our metabolisms.
Most of the volunteers had larger concentrations of these short-chain fatty acids in their intestines after exercise, along with the #microbes that produce them.
These increases were greatest, though, among the volunteers who had begun the experiment lean compared to those who were obese, the scientists found.
And perhaps not surprisingly, almost all of the changes in people’s guts dissipated after six weeks of not exercising. By and large, their microbiomes reverted to what they had been at the study’s start.