From this AP article, More blood pressure worry: It's linked to
dementia: “In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned
people's brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring
linked to later development of Alzheimer's disease and other
dementias. Those scars can start building up in middle age,
decades before memory problems will appear. The evidence is
strong enough that the National Institutes of Health soon will
begin enrolling thousands of hypertension sufferers in a major
study to see if aggressive treatment — pushing blood pressure
lower than currently recommended — better protects not just
their hearts but their brains.” Strength training has been shown
to lower blood pressure; it is heart, brain and body healthy.
The type of strength training we do at Austin Personal Training
and at New Orleans Fitness Training is high intensity interval
training (HIIT). It is a full body workout where a series of
strength training exercises are performed with little or no rest
between the exercises. With th