The Daily Step Counts Linked To 25%, 38%, And 50% Lower Dementia Risk

Research suggests it’s fewer than 10,000.

You’ve probably heard that 10,000 steps a day is best for your health. Not only was this figure a marketing tool at first, however, but some research has found that the true sweet spot is around 7,000 steps daily.

That distance has been linked to a lower likelihood of all-cause mortality, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even dementia.

Other studies have found different, and generally positive, results for other step counts, too.

Alzheimer’s Society has said that people who remain physically active throughout their lives may be 20% less likely to develop dementia overall. A lack of exercise, they wrote, is “one of the main factors where the evidence is strong enough to show that it increases a person’s risk of developing dementia”.

That comes from a swell of studies that showed a link between moving more and experiencing less dementia (these only showed a link and not a cause,........

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