Exercise keeps ‘Alzheimer’s Away’

London: Regular exercise can keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay according to a recent study done in the UK. Exercise flushes out the toxic chemical that causes this degenerative disease of the brain in the elderly population. Exercise replaces the toxic molecules with beneficial ones that protect the nerve cell.

Mark Mattson, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland, said that the findings were encouraging and that they could prove to play an important role in finding the cure to Alzheimer's disease. "It's initial data but I think it has potential to be very relevant to people," he said. However, Paul Adlard, a neuroscientist at the University of California, who has also studied the brains of mice in a different model of Alzheimer's disease, maintained that according to the data he had collected, exercise did not boost levels of the protective insulin-like grow.

Currently Alzheimer's disease affects millions of the people above the age of 50 years across the globe and treatment for them is only minimally effective.

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