Early rising and exercise may cut motor neurone disease risk by up to 26%

Motor neurone disease (ALS) causes progressive paralysis and death, typically within five years of diagnosis, affecting roughly 1 in 50,000 people.

Among the quieter rhythms of daily life — when we rise, how we move, how long we rest — researchers are finding echoes of our long-term fate. A large Chinese study tracking more than half a million people over fourteen years has found that early risers face a twenty percent lower risk of developing motor neurone disease than night owls, while those who exercise regularly reduce their risk by twenty-six percent. ALS, a disease that strips away movement and speech and typically kills within five years, has no cure; the possibility that something as humble as a morning habit might offer partial p

Early rising and exercise may cut motor neurone disease risk by up to 26%

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