Mobility can cause brain atrophy

An inactive lifestyle not only makes you easy to have a bread waist, but it can also shrink your brain.

>> Millions of people die from lack of physical activity

Mobility has become a common disease of modern times. (Artwork: CCTV)

The conclusion was drawn after researchers from Boston University (USA) conducted a monitoring of the health and brain status of more than 1,200 adults during the two decades.

At the beginning of the study, volunteers including men and women, with an average age of 41, were asked to exercise with electric treadmill. The change in blood pressure and heart rate was recorded when they tried to keep the conveyor of the machine running at a relatively light speed of 4km / h. When volunteers turned 60, they underwent brain scans and tested the brain's agility.

The results revealed that people with a rapid increase in heart rate while walking on a training conveyor belt would have less gray matter in their brains than at age 60.

People with diastolic blood pressure (blood pressure during the heartbeat) within a few minutes of exercising had worse results in a decision test.

Experts say that a rapid and rapid increase in heart rate and blood pressure usually occurs in people who are unwell, have a sluggish lifestyle, or are less active. The lack of exercise causes harm to the brain, leading to the death of the cells.

Dr. Nicole Spartano, head of research, explains: "Small blood vessels in the brain are vulnerable to changes in blood pressure and can be compromised by these fluctuations. Vascular damage. in the brain can contribute to structural changes and cognitive loss. "

According to Dr Spartano and colleagues, tracking volunteers to the late age may indicate that those who are not healthy at age 40 are more likely to develop dementia. Normally, the human brain shrinks with age, but the difference in brain size can be very large for Alzheimer's disease.

New research is published after a recent finding that most adults do not apply the right exercise guidelines. For example, one in 12 people in the UK does not walk continuously for 5 minutes for at least a month, regardless of whether they have any mobility problems.

However, other studies have also shown that regular walking can make the brain grow. Just walking 3 times a week can help us recover 2 years of aging of the brain.