Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Older adults who participate in a year-long aerobic exercise program increased the size of their hippocampus by 2%.
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Older adults who participate in a year-long aerobic exercise program increased the size of their hippocampus by 2%.
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there's been intervention studies showing that aerobic exercise after you know older adults that do it for two years increased their hip cample volume by like 2%
Not only did they not experience that brain atrophy over that year they gained brain atrophy. So they gained about 1 to 2% in their hippocample region.
I love this study because it showed that exercise can reverse the bra the the the aging brain.