Beat Parkinson’s and Dementia: “Weekend Warriors”

“Weekend Warriors” are successfully beating brain-related diseases:

- 45% for Parkinson’s disease
- 26% for dementia (including Alzheimer’s)

What’s a “Weekend Warrior”? It’s a term from a new study published in Nature Aging (with impressive results).

You may already be a weekend warrior without realizing it.

Exercising is one of the best things we can do for brain-related diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

But life gets hectic, and squeezing exercise into your daily routine might feel impossible.

The researchers wanted to know whether less regular exercise can have the same positive effects on brain health.

They analyzed data from over 75,000 people (average age 62) enrolled in the UK Biobank, a massive project that tracks the health of half a million individuals in the UK.

The participants wore wrist devices that recorded their physical activity over seven days.

Based on this data, they were split into three groups:

1. Inactive: Those who didn’t meet the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per week.

2. Regularly Active: People who achieved at least 150 minutes of exercise throughout the week.

3. Weekend Warriors: Those who achieved 150 minutes of MVPA but packed 50% or more of it into just one or two days.

The researchers then followed these participants for about 8.4 years, tracking the development of neurological conditions like dementia, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease, as well as mental health disorders like depression and anxiety.

The results were surprising. Compared to the inactive group, both the regularly active and weekend warrior groups had significantly lower risks of several serious conditions.

In the weekend warriors group, they found the following reductions:

1. 26% lower risk of dementia
2. 21% lower risk of stroke
3. 45% lower risk of Parkinson’s disease
4. 40% lower risk of depression and 37% lower risk of anxiety

And the most important finding was that these results were nearly identical to those found in the regularly active group. In other words, cramming your exercise into a couple of days might be just as good for your brain health as spreading it out over the week.

When it comes to Parkinson’s disease, exercising is not enough. Make a few diet changes, however, and your Parkinson’s disease symptoms will stop worsening, even evaporate altogether…

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