{"id":26812,"date":"2025-09-23T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=26812"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:59:10","slug":"want-to-improve-your-memory-try-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/want-to-improve-your-memory-try-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Improve Your Memory? Try Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post Courtesy of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/recommends\/ProgressiveHealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Progressive Health<\/a>\u00a0Blog<\/p>\n<p>The hippocampus, an area in the brain for memory and learning, typically shrinks with increasing age, Most oder adults experience shrinking of the hippocampus, increasing the risk for dementia. Regular exercise is known to promote brain health and function. Now research reports that regular walking improved memory and increased hippocampus size in seniors. The study, published in PNAS , examined the effects of moderate walking on memory and hippocampus size in older adults. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh assigned 120 sedentary older adults without dementia to either receive an\u00a0<a href=\"\/about\/EffectiveWeightLossTips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exercise regimen<\/a>\u00a0of brisk walking or stretching and toning for 40 minutes a day, three days a week, for one year. MRI brain scans and spatial memory tests were obtained from the participants. The researchers found that the walking group had a 2 percent increase in volume in the hippocampus region, while the\ufffd \ufffdstretching group had a\ufffd1 percent decrease in volume.<\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Want to Improve Your Memory? Try Walking\" href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Want to Improve Your Memory? Try Walking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enrich your life and the lives of others<\/strong>\u00a0by learning Aromatherapy, Reflexology or Color\/Crystal Therapy at the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\" target=\"_new\"><strong>Alternative Healing Academy<\/strong><\/a>! Convenient and easy-to-handle payment plans are available! Get 10% OFF of any course simply by liking our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\" target=\"_new\">Facebook Page<\/a>! After liking the page, click &#8216;<a href=\"\/\" target=\"_new\">shop now<\/a>&#8216; to get the discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post Courtesy of the\u00a0Progressive Health\u00a0Blog The hippocampus, an area in the brain for memory and learning, typically shrinks with increasing age, Most oder adults experience shrinking of the hippocampus, increasing the risk for dementia. Regular exercise is known to promote brain health and function. Now research reports that regular walking improved memory and increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}