Yoga provides unique cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer's disease, study finds

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Yoga provides unique cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer's disease, study finds

A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline, and reversing aging and inflammation-associated biomarkers—improvements not seen in a group who received standard memory training exercises.