Aerobics Can Prevent Senility

DO NOT want to go senile? Try aerobic exercise. Aerobic other than keeping your body fit, also make the brain work optimally.

Based on the research team of scientists at the University of applied Science in Utrecht, beraerobik for the elderly can improve memory and other mental abilities. To prove this hypothesis, the research team led by Dr Maaike Angevaren then analyzed 11 clinical trials that was developed in the United States, France, and Sweden. The study involved 670 elderly respondents aged over 55 years.

Researchers in the Netherlands found that when the elderly (aged more than 55 years) healthy maintain fitness with beraerobik, he simultaneously improve the quality of memory, attention, and other mental abilities. This finding was published on the Cochrane Library Update in April 2008, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, a international organization that evaluates research on health.

Aerobic exercises include brisk walking, which makes the heart work motivated and improve cardiovascular endurance. Exercises of this type proven to be beneficial for the heart. Simultaneously, the research and then linking the brain and cognitive function in elderly people.

However, it remains unclear is there a direct relationship between aerobic exercise and the benefits for the heart.

Several studies have then tested the effect of aerobic compared to people who do not do any exercise. For comparison, the researchers analyzed the people who exercise power or flexibility as well as social activities.

Eight of the 11 kinds of research that investigators found respondents who do aerobic exercise showed an average improvement of their fitness level. Improvements also turned out to help improve the quality of mental acuity. "However, it remains unclear why the improvement of physical fitness benefits that further research is needed," said Angevaren.

The reason is, when the researchers did not consider the respondents who did not perform any exercise of that analysis, found no consistent evidence. Proof that if aerobic provide more benefits than other types of sports.

"This needs to be proven whether a similar effect was also obtained from various kinds of other sports," he added.

Still, underscore Angevaren fixed conclusions about why a healthy heart aerobic or beneficial for the brain. "This improvement in cognition as a result of cardiovascular fitness can be explained by improving blood flow to the brain. Thus, increases brain metabolism, and stimulates production of neurotransmitters and formation of new synapses," he explained.

Neurotransmitters are chemical substances in the body in charge of carrying messages between nerve cells. Meanwhile, the synapse is the relationship between the relations of nerve cells. That way, the researchers concluded that the healthy heart, simultaneously also protect the brain. Not only protects from heart attacks, strokes as well.