Key points from article :
Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation.
Study shows it’s possible to transfer the brain benefits enjoyed by marathon-running mice.
Provides taming brain inflammation in people who don’t get much exercise.
Lower their risk of neurodegenerative disease or slow its progression.
Transfusions of blood from running mice reduced neuroinflammation in sedentary mice.
Isolated blood-borne protein to play important role in anti-neuroinflammatory exercise effect.
Steady running was enough to substantially increase quantity of neurons.
Other cells in the brains of marathoner mice when compared with those of sedentary mice.
Compared activation levels of thousands of genes in the hippocampus of sedentary mice.
Receiving marathoner versus those receiving couch-potato plasma.
Wyss-Coray, lead author says, “The runners’ blood was clearly doing something to the brain...” .
Study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Research by Stanford School of Medicine Published in Nature.
