Having a higher level of cardiorespiratory fitness reduced the risk for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, even in people at high genetic risk, a new study found.

It’s official: frequent exercise gives you protection from dementia. After following more than 10,000 participants in their 50s for 16 years, researchers at the University of the Andes in Colombia determined that those who exercised regularly were 10 per cent less likely to have developed dementia by their 70s than those who had never exercised at

Experts said that ‘cardiorespiratory fitness’ could be used as a predictor for thinking and memory problems in older age.