Exercise and antioxidants: A winning combination for brain health?
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

An international team of researchers representing several institutions in Japan and the US has published promising findings that may stand to benefit people living with the specter of Alzheimer`s and other neurodegenerative diseases, as well as age-related cognitive decline. In their paper published in PNAS, `Leptin in hippocampus mediates benefits of mild exercise by an antioxidant on neurogenesis and memory,` Yook and colleagues present results from a series of experiments-murine and in vitro-that elucidate the role of leptin in cognitive function. Leptin is a hormone that is produced in adipose tissue and in the hippocampus, the part of the brain where memory and spatial learning are processed.