According to a new study conducted on persons of over 60 years of age, those who were active and physically fit were having very slow impact of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr Jeffrey Burns of University of Kansas School of Medicine said that people with early Alzheimer's disease may be able to preserve their brain function for a longer period of time by regular exercise.

 

Dr Burns said that he started to look the relationship between exercise and Alzheimer’s disease and found that they are inversely proportional. More physically active you are, slower is the pace of Alzheimer’s disease. He said that physical exercise certainly affects the progress of the illness and slows down it in long term.

 

Commenting on the new research Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society affirmed that one possible explanation why dementia progresses slower in people who are physically fit is that exercise increases blood flow to the brain, delivering oxygen and nutrients to brain cells. Interestingly, earlier too there has been identical research that exercise reduces chances of dementia.