Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
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Re: Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
#2Maybe not a drug. But if the improvements in health come from bio chemical signals, it should be possible to activate those signals without engaging in exercise. Eventually?
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#3for those who are biochemically inclined:
Myokines aka exerkines
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#4Until you injure something particularly nasty, like a joint, tendon, muscle tear, etc...
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#5Maybe not a drug. But if the improvements in health come from bio chemical signals, it should be possible to activate those signals without engaging in exercise. Eventually?
yes and no. A couple thousand myokines at work here.
Even lactate, formerly regarded as simply a waste product, is one.
But sure, a cocktail may be possible at some point, beyond getting a blood transfusion from someone fitter and maybe younger.
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#6Until you injure something particularly nasty, like a joint, tendon, muscle tear, etc...
You can also walk and bike, it doesn't need to be crazy intensive.
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#7Until you injure something particularly nasty, like a joint, tendon, muscle tear, etc...
Then we switch sports and start rehab. Aerobic exercise can be done in so many ways.
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#8Maybe not a drug. But if the improvements in health come from bio chemical signals, it should be possible to activate those signals without engaging in exercise. Eventually?
Strictly speaking, any intervention other than exercise is going to give you a subset of the total stimulation. A drug acting on the tissues directly would bypass the neurological component, for example.
If the idea is to avoid the effort of exercise, perhaps it would be worth considering the possibility that the effort itself is essential.
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#9Until you injure something particularly nasty, like a joint, tendon, muscle tear, etc...
It will happen. But, that’s part of the game. The alternative? A mind in a useless body.
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#10The best way to make a happy, healthy person into an unhappy, unhealthy person is to keep them lonely and keep them still. It should come as no surprise that the inverse also tends to hold true.
On a tangent, I think that's part of why volunteering can be so rewarding.