Exercise may protect against neurodegenerative diseases
November 19, 2015
Exercise may protect aging brains against the neurodegenerative diseases resulting from energy-depleting stress caused by neurotoxins and other factors, according to researchers at the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
They found that running-wheel exercise increased the amount of SIRT3 in neurons of normal mice and protected them against degeneration.
However, mice models genetically modified to not produce SIRT3 became… read more