After reading RP, I concluded that lots of exercise may not be as healthy as I thought if at all. I thought that studies showing positive effects might just be confusing causation and correlation (someone exercising is probably healthier to start with which is why one is able and willing to exercise), or provides just some short-term stimulating effects and might not be good long term.
However, there is more to that. Some researchers who observe that people exercising look healthier have a cellular explanation, as in the link below. How can it be reconciled with RP's paradigm?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercising-keeps-your-cells-young/
However, there is more to that. Some researchers who observe that people exercising look healthier have a cellular explanation, as in the link below. How can it be reconciled with RP's paradigm?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercising-keeps-your-cells-young/
It ‘‘was striking,’’ recalls Dr. Christian Werner, an internal-medicine resident at Saarland University Clinic in Homburg, ‘‘to see in our study that many of the middle-aged athletes looked much younger than sedentary control subjects of the same age.’’
The sedentary older subjects had telomeres that were on average 40 percent shorter than in the sedentary young subjects, suggesting that the older subjects’ cells were, like them, aging.