{"id":232928,"date":"2026-03-10T03:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/exercise-protects-against-alzheimers-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:43:41","slug":"exercise-protects-against-alzheimers-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/exercise-protects-against-alzheimers-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Protects Against Alzheimer\u2019s, And Scientists May Finally Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exercise-protects-against-alzheimers-and-scientists-may-finally-know-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among its numerous health benefits, physical activity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimers-disease-could-be-slowed-by-taking-as-few-as-5000-steps-a-day\">reduces the risk<\/a> of developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease. A new study on mice now dives into the specific mechanisms and proteins that allow exercise to protect our brains.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists had <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aaw2622\">previously determined<\/a> that physical activity increases a protein called glycosylphosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase D1 in the blood of mice, and that this protein is associated with good brain health.<\/p>\n<p>That protein \u2013 more succinctly referred to as GPLD1 \u2013 strengthens the barrier that guards the brain against all sorts of unwelcome visitors within our blood, protecting against inflammation and subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/10000-brain-scans-reveal-why-your-memory-gets-worse-with-age\">cognitive decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among its numerous health benefits, physical activity reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease. A new study on mice now dives into the specific mechanisms and proteins that allow exercise to protect our brains. Scientists had previously determined that physical activity increases a protein called glycosylphosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase D1 in the blood of mice, and that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232928","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\/232928","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}