{"id":330488,"date":"2025-08-09T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330488\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:03:19","slug":"this-one-surprising-exercise-cuts-dementia-risk-by-88-percent-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330488\/","title":{"rendered":"This One Surprising Exercise Cuts Dementia Risk by 88 Percent, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

This One Surprising Exercise Cuts Dementia Risk by 88 Percent, Study Finds<\/a> originally appeared on Men’s Fitness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re not a fan of running, hopping on a bike may be a powerful way to get your heart rate up while also protecting your brain health.<\/p>\n

A long-term study published in Neurology<\/a> found that individuals who performed well on a cycling test in midlife were dramatically less likely to develop dementia as they got older. While the study was only performed on women, the results are promising.<\/p>\n

Researchers tracked 191 women who underwent a stepwise-increased maximal ergometer cycling test in 1968 to assess their cardiovascular fitness.<\/p>\n

The cycling test asks participants to pedal on a stationary bike with gradually increasing resistance until they reach their max effort. It assesses how well the heart and lungs perform under increasing physical stress.<\/p>\n

The women, aged between 38 and 60 at the time, were then followed for 44 years, with regular dementia screenings between 1974 and 2009.<\/p>\n

The individuals who had high cardiovascular fitness in midlife were 88 percent less likely to develop dementia compared to those with moderate fitness levels.<\/p>\n

Related: New Study Finds This Common Supplement Cuts Dementia Risk by 40 Percent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The onset of dementia was also delayed\u2014by an average of 9.5 years\u2014among the highly fit group.<\/p>\n

As of 2020, an estimated 55 million people worldwide were living with dementia, according to Alzheimer\u2019s Disease International<\/a>\u2014a number expected to nearly double every 20 years, climbing to 78 million by 2030 and 139 million by 2050.<\/p>\n

“Promotion of a high cardiovascular fitness may be included in strategies to mitigate or prevent dementia,” the authors wrote in the study.<\/p>\n

The study adds to growing evidence connecting physical health with brain health, highlighting the long-term benefits of staying active.<\/p>\n

Related: You Can\u2019t Stop Aging, But These Daily Habits Could Lower Your Dementia Risk, Doctor Says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This One Surprising Exercise Cuts Dementia Risk by 88 Percent, Study Finds<\/a> first appeared on Men’s Fitness on Aug 8, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Men’s Fitness<\/a> on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This One Surprising Exercise Cuts Dementia Risk by 88 Percent, Study Finds originally appeared on Men’s Fitness. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[37283,425,1630,105,118766,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-cardiovascular-fitness","9":"tag-dementia","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-stationary-bike","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998712962040382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}