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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/why-exercise-protects-your-memory/">Why Exercise Protects Your Memory</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted January 3, 2008 at 02:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">We know that exercise boasts many benefits to your health - from physical wellness to stress relief. But can it boost brain power, too? Dr. Gabe Mirkin investigates exciting new research that suggests physical activity may protect you from neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Recent research shows that a regular exercise program can help to prevent some of the loss of memory that comes with aging. A part of your brain called the hippocampus is the control station for memories that you store in other parts of the brain. Another brain structure called the prefrontal cortex is the central station that assembles data from other parts of your brain when you want to recall something from your past. Aging causes the brain to shrink and you lose synapses that transmit messages from one nerve to another. …<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/why-exercise-protects-your-memory/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/why-exercise-protects-your-memory/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/why-exercise-protects-your-memory/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/why-exercise-protects-your-memory/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>