Loss of muscle, increase in fat trigger changes that harm cognition overtime, study finds.
The study, which was published inlooked at six years of data from 4,431 men and women, average age of 64. The researchers examined the participants’ changes in lean mass and abdominal and total body fat, and how those body composition changes were related to changes in their fluid intelligence—or logical, problem solving abilities—over the course of the study period.
“Chronological age doesn’t seem to be a factor in fluid intelligence decreasing over time,” said study author Auriel Willette, Ph.D., assistant professor of food science and human nutrition, in aThis seemingly unlikely brain-body composition connection appears to be rooted in how body fat impacts the immune system.
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