By STAFF Writer

March 02 — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine published a report saying brain stays younger by doing aerobic activities. It’s study shows that all those elderly people who were physically active had healthier cerebral vessels.
An intensive research by using non-invasive magnetic resonance, conducted by Neurosurgery professor Elizabeth Bullitt, M.D., Van L. Weatherspoon got very encouraging results after performing angiography to study shape and number of blood vessels of elderly men and women who were physically active.

They took two different group samples of elderly people, one was physically active and having minimum 180 minutes of aerobic activity every week and the other were having no physical activity history.

Active elderly group showed blood vessel pattern similar to adults while inactive group lacked far behind. Blood vessel in brain naturally gets narrower with older age but regular physical activity helps keeping blood vessel in good shape while the brains of inactive group had increased vessel elongation.