{"id":190245,"date":"2024-05-28T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/exercise-reverses-specific-age-related-brain-changes-in-mice"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:22:37","slug":"exercise-reverses-specific-age-related-brain-changes-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/exercise-reverses-specific-age-related-brain-changes-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Reverses Specific Age-Related Brain Changes In Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exercise-reverses-specific-age-related-brain-changes-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular physical activity can offer major rejuvenation powers, helping people retain strength as they age while buffering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-finds-that-we-can-reduce-our-cancer-risk-thanks-to-vigorous-everyday-activities\">against illness<\/a> and injury. As a growing body of research suggests, this includes valuable protection throughout our bodies \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/regular-exercise-is-linked-to-larger-brain-volume-in-memory-and-learning-regions\">including our brains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia, exercise can slow or even prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/personalized-lifestyle-changes-boost-cognition-by-74-in-people-at-risk-of-alzheimers\">cognitive decline<\/a> in mice, with a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/acel.14172\">profound and selective effect<\/a>\u201d on certain types of brain cell.<\/p>\n<p>On top of demonstrating such an intriguing phenomenon in a fellow mammal, the new study also sheds light on how this effect is triggered inside the brains of physically active mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular physical activity can offer major rejuvenation powers, helping people retain strength as they age while buffering against illness and injury. As a growing body of research suggests, this includes valuable protection throughout our bodies \u2013 including our brains. According to a new study by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia, exercise can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190245","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}