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Source: Low Carb Mag
The UCLA study reports that people who are more sedentary have thinning in brain regions linked to memory—and even high-levels of exercise don’t seem to undo the effects of sitting too much.
The team looked at the connections between sitting, exercise, and the thickness of his or her medial temporal lobe, which is involved in memory formation, as well as its subregions. Participants, aged 45 to 75, answered questions about how much they’d sat on average over the past week and how much exercise they got at low, medium, and high intensities. Some physical measures were taken, and they were all tested for the “Alzheimer’s gene” variants (APOE). Finally, their brains were scanned with MRI to measure the thickness of regions in the medial temporal lobe.
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