Not sure if this answers the question; but, as soon as I learned about BDNF and how muscle building can increase the levels of it, I became a gym rat. I want my brain to keep working past 90 and be able to program well into my 90s (I wanna be yelling at everyone about my struggles with Rust).In all seriousness if you don’t wanna have dementia a little too early in life. Lift. Weights. Don’t ignore cardio though. But BUILD so you can reap the benefits of your lean mass into your elder years . Training also helps me improve my MTB performance, which I find really fun.
Got any sources to read up on BDNF and working out? I just checked some stuff online but it’s mostly either ai-slop articles or science papers about the protein itself 😅
This stuff is incredibly complex to study. And every time I read a study I forget to archive it somewhere. We don’t have all of the answers, but studies like this one:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37600508/
Really make me go, get your ass to the gym. No excuses.
And I suspect we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg here when it comes to things like BDNF. In short, exercise (specifically Strength Training and HIIT) seems well worth it since it is having some kind of effect on people who already have Alzheimer’s.
I wish the fitness industry promoted the practical and real cognitive benefits of strength training instead of using using people with eating disorders and six-packs(six-packs usually aren’t healthy by the way) to show/advertise the “perfect body”. When in reality they should be promoting how much it can help your cognition and mood. I might get heat for this, but I’ll say it anyway: I swear people would not have to take as many antidepressants in this country as they do if they just strength-trained twice a week. I see it in the software industry every day how people 15,20 years my senior (whom I respect since they are my mentors) and it hurts to see the beer gut and the lack of vitality (you can see this in someone’s face regardless of age) just because as programmers we are sitting all the time, and if you don’t fight the negative side effects of that with exercise your body will respond in nasty ways.
Thanks! I took a look at the studie and it’s “citations” and “cited by” articles. Sounds promising! I’ve got dementia / AD in the family, pretty sure I’m next in line in about 50 years. I’ve never heard about the topic but it seems pretty rigorously researched!
I climb, but not very often. Time to get the running shoes out and start getting some regular exercise in again.
Weight lifting can get stolen for all I care, I hate it 😂 But we have a forest exactly 3 minutes walk away, so time to get out in nature again!
I understand weightlifting/resistance training is not for everybody. It is crucial to prevent sarcopenia a little too early in life. And it doesn’t take a whole lot to get 90% of the benefits from strength training. Two sessions/week of 1hr each is all you need to reap most of the benefits.
Not sure if this answers the question; but, as soon as I learned about BDNF and how muscle building can increase the levels of it, I became a gym rat. I want my brain to keep working past 90 and be able to program well into my 90s (I wanna be yelling at everyone about my struggles with Rust).In all seriousness if you don’t wanna have dementia a little too early in life. Lift. Weights. Don’t ignore cardio though. But BUILD so you can reap the benefits of your lean mass into your elder years . Training also helps me improve my MTB performance, which I find really fun.
Sorry for the wall of text :D
Got any sources to read up on BDNF and working out? I just checked some stuff online but it’s mostly either ai-slop articles or science papers about the protein itself 😅
This stuff is incredibly complex to study. And every time I read a study I forget to archive it somewhere. We don’t have all of the answers, but studies like this one:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37600508/
Really make me go, get your ass to the gym. No excuses.
And I suspect we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg here when it comes to things like BDNF. In short, exercise (specifically Strength Training and HIIT) seems well worth it since it is having some kind of effect on people who already have Alzheimer’s.
I wish the fitness industry promoted the practical and real cognitive benefits of strength training instead of using using people with eating disorders and six-packs(six-packs usually aren’t healthy by the way) to show/advertise the “perfect body”. When in reality they should be promoting how much it can help your cognition and mood. I might get heat for this, but I’ll say it anyway: I swear people would not have to take as many antidepressants in this country as they do if they just strength-trained twice a week. I see it in the software industry every day how people 15,20 years my senior (whom I respect since they are my mentors) and it hurts to see the beer gut and the lack of vitality (you can see this in someone’s face regardless of age) just because as programmers we are sitting all the time, and if you don’t fight the negative side effects of that with exercise your body will respond in nasty ways.
Thanks! I took a look at the studie and it’s “citations” and “cited by” articles. Sounds promising! I’ve got dementia / AD in the family, pretty sure I’m next in line in about 50 years. I’ve never heard about the topic but it seems pretty rigorously researched!
I climb, but not very often. Time to get the running shoes out and start getting some regular exercise in again.
Weight lifting can get stolen for all I care, I hate it 😂 But we have a forest exactly 3 minutes walk away, so time to get out in nature again!
I understand weightlifting/resistance training is not for everybody. It is crucial to prevent sarcopenia a little too early in life. And it doesn’t take a whole lot to get 90% of the benefits from strength training. Two sessions/week of 1hr each is all you need to reap most of the benefits.