Nam2@7676 / Flickr
Even a moderate level of physical exercise can help combat the disease, which still has no cure.
Walking is always a good option, and proven to be healthy for combating various diseases. Now, a team led by Mass General Brigham in the USA has discovered that Even a moderate level of physical activity may be enough to halt the progression of the disease.
In the new investigation, adults aged between 50 and 90 were studied, who did not present cognitive impairment at the beginning of the study.
Those who practiced moderate levels of physical activity, between 5,000 and 7,500 steps per day, had a notable reduction in both the rate of tau accumulation and cognitive decline.
Still, the most curious thing was the fact that the effect of walking faded over the distance covered: more than 7,500 steps a day produced the same effect as 5,000.
On the other hand, even moderate activity, between 3,000 and 5,000 steps daily, delayed the same markers. Published this month in Nature concluded that A “brief” 5,000 steps can therefore help stop Alzheimer’s.
“Taken together,” the investigators write, “our results support targeting physical inactivity as a strategy in future randomized clinical trials to modify the trajectory of tau protein and cognition in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, and potentially provide an easier to understand and more achievable physical activity goal for sedentary older adults at high risk for cognitive decline.”
