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Exercise increases brain growth factor and receptors, prevents stem cell drop in middle age

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A new study confirms that exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in the hippocampus of the mouse brain, and suggests that this happens because exercise restores a brain chemical which promotes the production and maturation of new stem cells.


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