{"id":1988,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/early-life-exercise-cuts-dementia-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","slug":"early-life-exercise-cuts-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/early-life-exercise-cuts-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Early life exercise cuts dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-31 15:08:00<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Regular exercise before the age of 50 can ward off dementia in later life.<BR><br \/>\nNew research has found that individuals who exercised monthly in their early years maintained superior brain volume and cognitive function &#8211; even when displaying early signs of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<BR><br \/>\nThe benefits were particularly prominent in the hippocampus, the area of the brain that is responsible for learning and memory functions.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at University College London&#8217;s (UCL) Dementia Research Centre analysed data from 468 participants &#8211; all of whom were aged 70 &#8211; born in the same week in March 1946 across England, Scotland and Wales and tracked physical activities such as walking, swimming and football over a period of three decades.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Sarah-Naomi James, an expert at the university, said: &#8220;(The hippocampus) is a really important part of the brain, and we&#8217;re showing that it&#8217;s actually larger.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We call it preservation of this area of the brain that is usually starting to decline and that is responsible for the early signs of dementia.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-31 15:08:00 Regular exercise before the age of 50 can ward off dementia in later life. New research has found that individuals who exercised monthly in their early years maintained&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}