{"id":160551,"date":"2023-03-18T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/can-exercise-affect-the-progression-of-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2023-03-18T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:23:47","slug":"can-exercise-affect-the-progression-of-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/can-exercise-affect-the-progression-of-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Can exercise affect the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-exercise-affect-the-progression-of-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 Studies have shown that Alzheimer\u2019s may become the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/DocServer\/ALZ_BoomersReport.pdf?docID=521\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/DocServer\/ALZ_BoomersReport.pdf?docID=521\" target=\"_blank\"> defining disease of the baby boomer generation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to The Alzheimer\u2019s Association, the number of people age 65 and over living with Alzheimer\u2019s now is nearly 7 million. That number is expected <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/alzheimers-dementia\/facts-figures#:~:text=An%20estimated%206.7%20million%20Americans, older%20(10.7%25)%20has%20Alzheimer's.\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/alzheimers-dementia\/facts-figures#:~:text=An%20estimated%206.7%20million%20Americans, older%20(10.7%25)%20has%20Alzheimer's.\" target=\"_blank\">to rise to over 13 million by 2050.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physician and best-selling author Dr. Ian Smith says it\u2019s not known exactly what causes Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NewsNation) \u2014 Studies have shown that Alzheimer\u2019s may become the defining disease of the baby boomer generation. According to The Alzheimer\u2019s Association, the number of people age 65 and over living with Alzheimer\u2019s now is nearly 7 million. That number is expected to rise to over 13 million by 2050. Physician and best-selling author Dr. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}