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Stress Proof Your Life with Dr. Mithu Storoni

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

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Exercise Protects the Hippocampus From Dementia

Exercise has been shown to protect the mouse brain from shrinking of the hippocampus and from disrupted plasticity one way does this is by possibly by enhancing levels of brain factors or kind of brain growth potions like BDNF. We know that exercise increases levels of BDNF it also does so in humans and this may be one way in which exercise is protective what do we find in dementia?

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