INTRODUCTION: The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of six-week aerobic exercise with moderate intensity and consumption of nanocurcumin on TNF-alpha and memory in 60 to 65 years old women with syndrome metabolic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 44 women with metabolic syndrome voluntarily took part in the present study. Correspondingly, participants were randomly divided in 4 groups: control, exercise, curcumin, and exercise+curcumin. Exercise training consisted of three sets of twelve-minute aerobic exercise training on a treadmill with 5 minute rest between the sets. One minute was added to the duration of exercise sets in each week. Blood samples were conducted before and after six-week. TNF-alpha level was measured by ELISA method and memory test were conduct with picture recall test. RESULTS: In comparison with the control group, following eight-week interventions TNF-alpha significantly decreased (p <= 0.05) and memory recall significantly increased (p <= 0.05) all treated groups. Moroner, these changes were significantly higher in the exercise+curcumin group than other treated groups. CONCLUSION: This study showed six-week interventions lead to increased memory recall. This may be due to a decline in TNF-alpha levels and improvement of metabolic syndrome.

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