Against the backdrop of a statistic — two-thirds of Alzheimer's diagnoses fall on women — researchers at Rutgers have found that regular aerobic exercise offers postmenopausal women a meaningful shield for the thinking skills most vulnerable during hormonal transition. The study, involving 93 women of typical fitness levels, revealed that executive function improved measurably within three months and continued to strengthen over six, suggesting that the body's movement and the mind's clarity are more intimately bound than many women in midlife are told. In a period when many pull back from phy