Recent studies have shown that pregnant women who exercise regularly can help prevent neurodegenerative diseases to their unborn child. Prenatal exercise improves brain plasticity. It also decreases toxic protein deposits, inflammation and oxidative stress. These effects ward off neurodegenerative diseases. Neurodegenerative diseases include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's. This gives pregnant women another reason to work out.
Pregnant women should exercise anyway in order to prevent many things not just neurodegenerative diseases. But this just gives one more reason to do it. We do not really know if it is cmpletely proven to help yet but it couldn't hurt. Mice have been tested to see the effects but in about fifty or sixty years we will be able to see if it really prevents the diseases. In the mean time though, I think women should exercise while pregnant.
This is really an interesting article. Hopefully pregnant women do consider exercising. Although, i have heard that if you usually don't exercise before you become pregnant, then exercise while pregnant, there could be some harmful effects.
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting. Hopefully more pregnant women will consider exercise to prevent neurodegenerative diseases.
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting because it is an ongoing study that has a margin for error.
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