Exercise keeps dementia at bay: Running and walking 'significantly' boosts brain power

express.co.uk ^ | Giles Sheldrick

[pax_et_bonum]

I’m guessing that yours was one of her more memorable coffee klatch conversations.

:-)

Do the cats belong to you or do you belong to the cats?

[onedoug]

Thanks for posting, RR.

w, s, ping....

[RitchieAprile]

it will not be a walk in the park. there may be times when it will seem worse than the disease. it will change you forever.

be strong you can get through it .

[Patriotic1]

So the muscle shakes in my legs I get from certain poses or when I'm out of breath from Vinyasa mean nothing?

I lift free weights, do cardio, and pilates (mat and machine) but find that yoga kicks my butt. And no, not due to stretching.

[llevrok]

How long does it take you to do the 6 miles? TIA.

A power walk at :15.40 miles pace or about 1 hour35min total time. Then there is coffee and a scone later that un-does it all. I call that my cool down period.

Walking is a perfect exercise imho. Low impact, inexpensive (shoes are your expense), easy to build up the distance

[Yaelle]

Interesting: my dad and his brother were both tallish, thin, strong men. My dad never exercised though he lettered in 3 sports in college. His brother walked miles daily and swam many laps every day in summer, until he was in his mid 80s. My dad had Alzheimer’s by 80 and was too impaired to live a normal life by then. He lived 5 more childlike years. My uncle did not get one bit of Dementia until he was about 88. He is 90 and he’s declined a lot but still walks a mile or so up a hill every day.

I believe it was the exercise that kept Dementia at bay for about 10 years longer for my uncle than his brother.

[Yaelle]

Since I have too many people to care for, I can’t get out long enough to run or walk. So I’ve started trampolining because I can get a lot out of 5-10 minutes, and never leave the yard so I can keep an eye on mom (who has Alzheimer’s, as did dad) and the kids. I am loving it.

I do try to take mom for walks but she walks so slowly it was “a waste of time” and no real exercise value for me. Until I came up with the idea of walking behind her slow pace, doing lunges. Now if she only gets down one block, I have gotten a good little workout! I’m the one who looks like a total idiot on the street but hey, it works for me.

And I love curry and also take turmeric daily.

[Yaelle]

Wishing you a full speedy recovery, Farmer. May those treatments be easy on you.

[Yaelle]

I did this, running sprints uphill barefoot on grass, until I was about 4 mos pregnant. It was so fun, like being a kid again.

[Yaelle]

Zofran? Sure it works. I have used it for surgeries and pregnancies. It definitely reduces nausea better and with less allergic reactione than the compazine drugs. Can always get the little subq shots.

[Yaelle]

Using your brain muscle a lot will, IMHO, keep Alzheimers more at bay than anything else, so reading FR and posting here will do much for your memory bank folks. Keep thinking!!!!

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It sounds so positive and nice. But it’s bunk. My parents both got Alzheimer’s. I have been tested and do not have “a gene” for it. So I don’t think they did, either. They were both very busy, smart, achieving seniors. They traveled, dad worked, he did other doctors’ bookkeeping for fun, followed his investments, was an expert witness, even still subbed for other docs. Until he couldn’t. Mom read 3-4 American history books a week, was very involved socially, traveling with Dad. They bought mountaintop property in their 70s and built a big house, a big involved project. They loved cards and other games.

THEY DID NOT GET ALZHEIMERS FROM LACK OF BRAIN ACTIVITY.

I believe it is caused by something (or some things) in our environment. There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic. And it isn’t that people are living longer. Both of them will not be living as long as their parents did (mom is still alive so that isn’t for sure, but probably).

[RoosterRedux]

Heheh. Probably right.

[trebb]

I’m with you - no telling how nuts I would be if I hadn’t exercised all my life.

[Farmer Dean]

I’m no where near stage 4,the Doctors tell me that they expect to cure me.Thank God your wife is doing well.

[ballplayer]

So walk

[SES1066]

2000 miles and you’re still in Florida?

That is what happens when you keep going in circles! Something about returning home, where a cup of coffee is quick to be brewed. As summer approaches, I'll move to iced coffee.

[politicianslie]

As summer approaches, I'll move to iced coffee

As summer approaches, I'll move towards the Oregon and Washington coast.

Last summer spent "warm" wx months in Yellowstone and Glacier NP. Saw some snow in Yellowstone in the middle part of July. In the 30's in the AM and highs in the 70's (usually).

The 2015 summer spent it in Maine.

It's so nice not to have to try and stay cool in the oppressive heat. My exercise watch keeps my step count. I almost always walk at least 6 miles a day.