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Category: Exercise

Cardiovascular exercise
In the International Journal of Cardiology, researchers have described five styles of exercise and compared them to mortality risk. How much is the right amount? It is well known that physical activity is associated with a significantly diminished risk of death by cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death around the world. However, it has...
Wheelchair exercise
Today in GeroScience, researchers have published an analysis of a cohort study, concluding that adherence to physical activity recommendations can mitigate the increased mortality associated with disability. Simply being able to live In this paper, disability refers to impediments to the basic activities of daily living (ADLs), such as moving, dressing, showering, and eating. Disability...
Dumbbell and pills
A review recently published in BMC Biology suggests that taking gerotherapeutics while exercising doesn’t have advantages over separate treatments [1]. Are two approaches better than one? Exercise is a well-established intervention that ameliorates several aspects of aging. Similarly, other research suggests that certain drugs, known as gerotherapeutics, target biological processes in a way that benefits...
Older people exercising
According to a new study, the amount of leisure time spent on vigorous physical activity is inversely correlated with Alzheimer’s, but after a certain point, the association is reversed [1]. Outrunning dementia Due to populational aging and medicine’s successes against other age-related diseases, Alzheimer’s disease has become one of the leading causes of mortality in...
In a recent paper published in The Journal of Physiology, researchers compared the impacts of morning and afternoon aerobic exercise for people with metabolic syndrome [1]. Hitting the gym after breakfast or after lunch Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been defined as a group of “cardiometabolic risk factors and comorbidities.” People with metabolic syndrome are at...
Elderly man weightlifting
Researchers publishing in Ageing Research Reviews have conducted a large meta-analysis of papers that document the effects of exercise on cognitive function in healthy people. Not just for established conditions We have previously discussed how, even for healthy people, exercise is associated with improved biomarkers of health. These researchers have done something similar, although rather...