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..Studies have long shown that people who exercise are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Now, two recent studies of mice confirm biological changes in the brains of physically active animals.
"There's clearly an inverse relationship between the amount of exercise and the number of [plaque] deposits in the brain," says Sangram Sisodia, professor of neurosciences at the University of Chicago, who worked on one study. "Exercise changes the body's reaction to forming deposits; additional blood flow to the brain may help flush away the plaque."
This means that besides warding off heart disease and diabetes, exercise is part of preventing dementia. Although researchers do not yet know how effective exercise can be in this area, they have proved that increasing blood flow and heart rate is good for the entire central nervous system.
