“Exercise is one of the most powerful and best studied ways to protect the brain from age-related cognitive declineIn fact, it is becoming clearer every day that it plays a very important role in preventing neurodegenerative risks (from Alzheimer’s to a good number of rare congenital dementias). The problem is that not all older adults cannot exercise regularly. .
But what if it wasn’t necessary? A team of researchers from Eli & Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research from University of California San Francisco Have been found with a curious phenomenon that could answer this question in an extremely curious way: that, at least in mice, blood plasma transmits the restorative effects of exercise to the brain of elderly and sedentary subjects.