Exercise
Why Exercise?
As we age, we generally lose muscle mass, strength, mobility, and flexibility, but you can help your body resist these effects through a proper diet, taking proper vitamins and supplements, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, and most importantly exercise. Exercise improves strength, organ function, and energy levels. Your body needs aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise, and flexibility training to optimize its fitness to maintain health and well-being.
Aerobic exercise boosts cardiovascular function. It improves blood circulation, heart function, lung function, and metabolism. Also, aerobic exercise reduces your risk for:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Diabetes
Anaerobic exercise helps improve strength and agility. Anaerobic exercise, or resistance training generally, may help eliminate chronic back pain but also helps build muscle and, in turn, increase metabolic rate. By doing this kind of exercise, you may prevent the loss of strength and muscle that commonly occurs during the aging process.
Your body needs flexibility training for several reasons. Stretching not only improves flexibility and mobility but also decreases chronic muscle pain and increases cellular regeneration, which aids in countering the aging process.
From an anti-aging, preventative medicine standpoint, exercise is essential for good health and well-being as well as for preventing chronic disease.