{"id":80676,"date":"2018-07-16T03:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/leg-exercise-is-critical-to-brain-and-nervous-system-health"},"modified":"2018-07-16T03:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:43:01","slug":"leg-exercise-is-critical-to-brain-and-nervous-system-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/leg-exercise-is-critical-to-brain-and-nervous-system-health","title":{"rendered":"Leg Exercise is Critical to Brain and Nervous System Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body\u2019s large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles. Published today in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the study fundamentally alters brain and nervous system medicine \u2014 giving doctors new clues as to why patients with motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and other neurological diseases often rapidly decline when their movement becomes limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur study supports the notion that people who are unable to do load-bearing exercises \u2014 such as patients who are bed-ridden, or even astronauts on extended travel \u2014 not only lose muscle mass, but their body chemistry is altered at the cellular level and even their nervous system is adversely impacted,\u201d says Dr. Raffaella Adami from the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, Italy.<\/p>\n

The study involved restricting mice from using their hind legs, but not their front legs, over a period of 28 days. The mice continued to eat and groom normally and did not exhibit stress. At the end of the trial, the researchers examined an area of the brain called the sub-ventricular zone, which in many mammals has the role of maintaining nerve cell health. It is also the area where neural stem cells produce new neurons.<\/p>\n

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Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body\u2019s large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles. Published today in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the study fundamentally alters brain and nervous system medicine \u2014 giving doctors new clues as to why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}