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YOUR HEALTH: Six Minutes of Exercise Wards off Dementia

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J.C. Bruce
Mar 26, 2024
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Six minutes of high-intensity exercise is enough to produce a key protein in the brain, one that’s important in brain formation, function, and memory, and which has been implicated in the progress of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

The specialized protein in question is called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and it prom…

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