Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. A forty-four year population-based prospective study of 191 women demonstrated that cardiovascular fitness in midlife is associated with a reduced risk of dementia. Decades of observational studies in aging research report...
Home Exercise Improves Quality of Sleep in Older Adults
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. A twelve-week semi-supervised home exercise program significantly improved sleep quality and excessive day time sleepiness in the sixty-five elderly participants compared to the control group. Among the health issues...
Light-Intensity Physical Activity Associated With Lower Mortality in Older Adults
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Participating women (aged 63-69) demonstrated a strong inverse association between daily physical activity and the risk of mortality. The aging of the baby-boomer generation has precipitated a health care crisis calling...
Green Tea and Tai Chi Improve Osteopenia and Muscle Strength
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Green tea extract in combination with Tai Chi exercise significantly improved biomarkers of bone formation and resorption as well as muscle strength in the participating postmenopausal women with osteopenia. Due to marked...
The Effects of Exercise on Gut Microbiota in Lean and Obese Participants
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Exercise significantly altered the composition of gut microbiota in lean participants, and in particular, increased the butyrate-producing microbiota, the levels of which were not sustainable once exercising ceased. Two very recent studies,...
High-Intensity Hatha Yoga Significantly Increases Apolipoproteins and Adipocytokines With the Potential to Improve Cardiovascular Fitness
Written by James C. Morton Jr., Staff Writer. In a randomized placebo-controlled clinical research study of healthy students, High-Intensity Hatha Yoga significantly increases apolipoproteins (5.2%) and adipocytokines (14.1%) compared to baseline and placebo group....
Practice of Yoga Improves Levels of Inflammatory Markers Following Exercise
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Study participants who practiced yoga both moderately and strenuously had a significant reduction in inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF-α compared to those who did not practice yoga. Regular physical activity plays an...
Exercise Increases Hippocampal Volume and Improves Memory in Older Adults
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. A study of 120 community dwelling adults demonstrated the ability of aerobic exercise to increase the size of the brain hippocampus and improve spatial memory. The cognitive decline seen in late adulthood can be...
Vitamin E With Exercise May Improve Lung Health in Elderly Smokers
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Non-smoking males, aged 50 – 69 years, who took 225 IU of Vitamin E daily for 5-8 years and exercised leisurely, decreased their community-acquired pneumonia risk by 72% compared to those non-smoking males who did not exercise . Two...
Short-Term CoQ10 Supplement Maintains Cellular Health After Exercise
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Twelve weeks of supplementation with ubiquinol (CoQ10) significantly improved markers of oxidative stress. In addition, CoQ10 kept urinary biomarkers for measuring cell damage constant in participating subjects, but only after the...
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