Over the course of the last three months we have discussed everything from nutrition to diseases that can impact your need for long term care. Today I’d like to talk about how vigorous exercise can keep you younger longer. This information is based scientific findings.
When you examine your lifestyle to you think that you are basically an active person or basically an inactive person? If the answer is that you are basically inactive, then you are like many people. Unfortunately living a sedentary life ages you much faster than if you were even slightly more active. When scientists examined the aging factors and health of people who lived mainly sedentary lifestyles to those who lived more active lifestyles they found that sedentary people who were 50 years old had more health problems and issues than active people ten years older than them.
This means that vigorous exercise is the key to staying young. This is due to the fact that when your body is active it activates cytokines to stimulate cell growth and repair. The good news is that less than an hour of vigorous exercise can change your blood chemistry so that it supports cell growth and repair for up to 12 hours. If you are interested in preserving your youth and health, then it is recommended that you engage in some form of vigorous aerobic exercise slightly less than an hour five to six times a week and that you also weight train two to three times a week.
Your long term health depends a lot on your activity level. However, nutrition is also important to your health. Not only will diet and exercise help you feel and look better now, but it will also help to keep your ltc insurance affordable.