It’s true that this study didn’t find an association between running and getting Alzheimer’s, but that’s because the researchers didn’t look for one. What they did look for was an association between
running and death from Alzheimer’s, and they found a big one: people who ran more than 15.3 miles a week had a 40 percent risk reduction in death from Alzheimer’s, and those who ran between 7.7 and 15.3 miles had a 25 percent risk reduction. Wait, there’s more: walking far enough to expend the energy equivalent of 15.3-mile run was also linked with risk reduction. How do they know? Because researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory studied data from 153,000 runners and walkers who have been participating in the National Runners’ and Walkers’ Health Studies, following the runners for an average of 12 years and tracking the number who died of Alzheimer’s disease. Read more from HealthDay.
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
I can’t remember if I ran yesterday or not.
Doing running or walking is better than nothing. But it doesn’t offer immunity from Alzheimer’s or any other related dementia illnesses. Case in point, Gary Julin, a runner in my home town that never missed a day of running for 23yrs. Ran Boston Marathons and over a hundred more. Now as Lewey Body Dementia for the last three yrs. I know if you ask him he would never regret his running. But to state that it cuts alzheimers disease in half?