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   JAB  wrote:   
   > Is Aerobic Exercise The Right Prescription For Staving Off   
   > Alzheimer's?   
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   > Researchers are prescribing exercise as if it were a drug in a study   
   > that aims to see if it can prevent Alzheimer's disease.   
   >   
   > "We are testing if exercise is medicine for people with a mild memory   
   > problem," says Laura Baker, principal investigator of the nationwide   
   > EXERT study and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research   
   > Center at Wake Forest School of Medicine.   
   >   
   > The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, could help   
   > determine whether exercise can protect people from the memory and   
   > thinking problems associated with Alzheimer's.   
   >   
   > "The evidence in science has been building for the last 20 years to   
   > suggest that exercise at the right intensity could protect brain   
   > health as we age," Baker says.   
   >   
   > But much of that evidence has come from studies that were small, ran   
   > for only a few months or relied on people's own estimates of how much   
   > they exercised.   
   >   
   > The EXERT study is different. It's taking 300 people at high risk for   
   > Alzheimer's and randomly assigning them to one of two groups for 18   
   > months.   
   >   
   > https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/18/743189541   
   is-aerobic-exercise-the-right-prescription-for-staving-off-alzheimers   
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