Aerobic exercise may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease

'May' is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. We need exact protocols, what, how much, how long. And of course YOUR DOCTOR needs to get you 100% recovered to be able to do these exercises. 

Your chances of getting dementia.

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?   May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.

3. A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018 

5. Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017

 Or is your doctor using one of these to prevent dementia? 

1.  The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dale Bredesen 

 

2.  A Real Alzheimer's Prevention Program from The University of California

 

3. I'm a Brain Doctor, and This Is What I Do to Prevent Alzheimer's December 2018 

 

4. Reversing the Alzheimer’s Catastrophe April 2007

You can't use mine, I'm not medically trained, your doctors' better be EXACT.

Dementia prevention 19 ways per Dean

From October 2013 came this:

Newly identified protein helps explain how exercise boosts brain health 

Did your doctor start creating an exercise protocol when this can out in February 2019?

Exercise hormone can prevent Alzheimer's finds study

The latest here:

Aerobic exercise may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Aerobic exercise appeared to reduce cognitive impairment — a finding that may help guide future Alzheimer’s disease research, according to study results published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
“We were interested in understanding the mechanism of cognitive function improvement due to exercise in people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment,” Binu Thomas, PhD, senior research scientist at University of Texas Southwestern's O’Donnell Brain Institute, told Healio Psychiatry. “Ours was the first study to assess brain function benefits of performing aerobic exercise for 12 months. Most previous studies in mild cognitive impairment have assessed benefits after performing exercise interventions for 6 months or less. We were also interested in assessing if exercise has the potential to be used as an alternate means to slow or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.”

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According to Thomas and colleagues, amnestic mild cognitive impairment is a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease development, and clinical trials based on anti-amyloid strategies to prevent decline have mostly failed. However, studies have shown that aerobic exercise is a low-cost and potentially effective Alzheimer’s disease prevention approach.

Binu Thomas

In the current prospective clinical trial, Thomas and colleagues enrolled 30 participants aged 60 years or older with amnestic mild cognitive impairment into an aerobic exercise training group or a stretch training/control group for 12 months. Three times per week, both groups engaged in 25 to 30 minutes of training, with a gradual increase in frequency and duration over time.
Results showed a 47% improvement in some memory scores after 1 year among the aerobic exercise group compared with minimal change among the stretching group. At-rest brain imaging of the aerobic exercise group, taken at the study’s beginning and end, showed increased blood flow to the hippocampus and the anterior cingulate cortex, both of which are associated with memory function.
“Exercise seems to show promise for improving cognition and blood flow to brain regions sensitive to Alzheimer’s disease,” Thomas told Healio Psychiatry. “Pharmaceutical companies could use this information to improve cerebral blood flow to brain regions that showed increased blood flow in this study, to see if it is beneficial in mild cognitive impairment. Exercise may also be prescribed to delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease processes.”