{"id":2400,"date":"2025-04-09T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/weightlifting-could-slash-risk-of-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:33:03","slug":"weightlifting-could-slash-risk-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/weightlifting-could-slash-risk-of-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifting could slash risk of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-09 13:33:02<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Weightlifting could cut the risk of dementia in elderly people.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to a study carried out by Campinas University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, those who have a mild cognitive impairment &#8211; which causes people to have noticeable but not serious memory or thinking problems &#8211; could remember things better after lifting weights twice a week for half a year.<BR><br \/>\nAs well as improving memory, the research &#8211; which included 44 people &#8211; showed that weightlifting altered brain anatomy.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Isadora Ribeiro, a FAPESP doctoral fellowship recipient at UNICAMP&#8217;s School of Medical Sciences (FCM) and first author of the article, told News Medical Life Sciences: &#8220;We already knew that there would be physical improvement. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Cognitive improvement was also imagined, but we wanted to see the effect of weight training on the brains of older people with mild cognitive impairment. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The study showed that, fortunately, weight training is a strong ally against dementia, even for people who are already at high risk of developing it.&#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>2025-04-09 13:33:02 Weightlifting could cut the risk of dementia in elderly people. According to a study carried out by Campinas University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, those who have a mild&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","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\/2400","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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}