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"Reversing Cognitive Decline"
If you or anyone you know is currently starting to suffer from cognitive decline,
you're starting to forget things, starting to repeat things,
there is some exciting new research published this year.
They took folks with mild cognitive impairment, and had them exercise 30 minutes a day for six months,
versus a control group that just stretched for half an hour every day, instead of exercise.
Here's the data --
They did a test of cognitive performance at the beginning, and then repeated it at the end of six months,
and as you can see, in that six month period those not exercising, just stretching, continued to decline.
At the end of six months, both men and women got fewer correct answers than they did when they started.
Now what they were hoping for is that by adding exercise, they could slow down this decline.
So if instead of just stretching every day, they were doing aerobic exercise instead, getting some blood to their brain, maybe they'd only decline half as much,
or ideally not at all, stay the same, have zero fewer correct answers.
But this is what they found instead --
The cognitive decline reversed. They did better at the end of six months than when they started.
Drugs can't do that -- exercise can.