| 1 | Treating those conditions is helpful, but often brain damage from multiple infarctions is not reversible. | |
| 2 | "Maybe the people who exercised less already had some infarcts and were less steady on their feet," he says. | |
| 3 | For example, physicians have long known that suffering a stroke, in which blood flow to the brain has been interrupted by a clot or a hemorrhage, can lead to dementia. | |
| 4 | We think exercise is protecting against the development of brain infarcts, and the hope is with lower risk of having these events, you'd also be at lower risk of dementia or stroke. | |
| 5 | It found that the regular consumption of some fish significantly reduces the risk of subclinical brain infarcts, or "silent strokes." |