As per the researchers, brisk walking between 3,800 and 9,800 steps is ideal to reduce the risk of dementia.
The study found that participants between the ages of 40 and 79 years of age who walked 9,826 steps daily were 50% less likely to develop dementia within seven years.
The researchers also found that people who walked with purpose, which covered 40 steps per minute, could actually reap the most benefits with just 6,315 steps. These people could cut down the risk of dementia by 57%.
People who walked 3,800 steps per day reduced the risk of dementia by 25%.
“It is a brisk walking activity, like a power walk,” study coauthor Borja del Pozo Cruz, an adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, and senior researcher in health sciences for the University of Cadiz in Spain told CNN.
