An Enzyme That Increases With Exercise Can Improve Memory In Mice, And Maybe People
An Enzyme That Increases With Exercise Can Improve Memory In Mice, And Maybe People Enlarge this image toggle caption Owen Franken/Getty Images Owen Franken/Getty Images Scientists say they've identified an enzyme that could help explain how exercise can slow or even reverse some signs of aging in the brain. "Just because you have an old brain, it doesn't have to stay that way," says Saul Villeda, who researches aging at the University of California, San Francisco. "It's a long step between identifying this enzyme and, say, making a pill out of that," says neuroscientist Bradley Wise at the National Institute on Aging. "I wouldn't rush out and make GPLD1 and give it to people," says Willard "Bill" Freeman at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Oklahoma City.
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