Exercise: Closest Thing To A Free Miracle Anti-Aging Drug Available

Exercising will get the heart pumping, sweat flowing, and brain focused. Cardio/aerobic exercise can have significant and beneficial effects on both the mind and body and is well supported by a wealth of research with bodies of evidence that continue to grow including 2 recent studies just published in the journal Neurology and the journal Aging Cell. Middle aged women who are physically fit were roughly 88% less likely to develop dementia in a study involving 191 women with the average of 50 for 44 years. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg assessed subject cardiovascular health using cycling tests to group subjects into one of three categories: unfit, moderately fit, or fit. Over 44 years subjects were screened regularly for dementia with 32% of unfit subject being diagnosed with dementia, one quarter of the moderate fit subjects being diagnosed with the condition, and only 5% of the fit women developed dementia. Links were shown between fitness and decreased risk but was not able to prove one caused the other, even still this work adds to several other studies suggesting powerful links between exercise and brain health. In another study 125 amateur cyclists in the age group of 55-79 were evaluated and compared to 75 people of similar age who either rarely exercise or never exercised. Cyclists subjects were found to have more muscle mass and lower levels of body fat and cholesterol than the sedentary subjects . Cycling subjects were observed to also appear to have younger and healthier looking immune systems, especially regarding the thymus which is a key organ responsible for generating T cells. The thymus begins to start shrinking at around 20 years of age and T cell production starts to dwindle. Thymus glands in the cycling subjects looked as if they belonged to younger people […]

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