Neurologists Have Thoughts On That Viral 5-Second Exercise To Reduce Dementia

We asked neurologists if TikTokers are onto something.

Lifestyle Reporter, HuffPost

Could staving off memory loss be as simple as strategically wiggling your pinky fingers around every day? That’s what TikTokers are claiming.

Dubbed “pinky time,” the viral exercise is fairly simple: you hold your hands in front of you with your palms facing each other. Then, you interlace your index and middle fingers, touch your ring fingers to your thumbs together, and move your pinkies up and down for several seconds. (Watch how it’s done here.)

“Just seven to 10 seconds a day of this exercise can help protect against Alzheimer’s and improve brain plasticity,” one wellness influencer, Ana Lučić, says in one of the earliest videos on “pinky time”.

If your pinky can move this easily, Lučić says, it’s “a sign your brain is in great shape,” because “loss of fine motor control often mirrors cognitive decline”.

Those who post about pinky time say they do it at the same time each day. (One TikToker........

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