Everyone knows that exercise helps both body and mind, but high-intensity interval training (HIIT) offers older adults an even greater boost for long-term brain health, compared to less intense workouts.
Everyone knows that exercise helps both body and mind, but high-intensity interval training offers older adults an even greater boost for long-term brain health, compared to less intense workouts.
After 6 months, researchers measured the brain health of the people in the study with cognitive testing, blood testing for biomarkers, and high-resolution brain scans of the hippocampus, the area responsible for learning and memory. “Six months of high-intensity interval training is enough to flick the switch,” Perry Bartlett, PhD, a professor emeritus at the university's Queensland Brain Institute, said in a. “We followed up with them 5 years after the program, and incredibly, they still had improved cognition, even if they hadn’t kept up with the exercises.”
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