This 5-Second Pinky Exercise To Reduce Dementia Is Going Viral — And Neurologists Have Thoughts

Teona Gherasim

We asked neurologists if TikTokers are onto something. 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. “Just seven to 10