Autophagy - The Reason Why Exercise Allows You to Live Longer

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Science's current reason why exercise allows you to live longer...

Economist article summarizing the conclusions of Beth Levine's research here

NATURE paper by Beth Levine can be accessed free here through NIH

What type of exercise helps you live longest?

Pick the right exercise

The type of exercise you choose matters when it comes to longevity. Recent research from Finland indicates that individuals who engage in endurance activities (running, cycling, swimming, cross country skiing, walking) live about six years longer than couch potatoes. In contrast, those who prefer team sports like basketball, ice hockey, or soccer live just four years more. And sports-active people who prefer 'power-type' activities, including weight lifting, field events, and sprinting, last for only two additional years.

However, most of the increase in lifespan enjoyed by the Finnish team-sport and power athletes is due to social status, not athletic activity (team and power athletes tend to enjoy greater social status than sedentary people, which gives them better living conditions, higher-quality food, and superior health care). When the influence of social status is removed from the analysis, only athletic-minded individuals who routinely engage in endurance-type activities enjoy greater longevity than the Finnish non-exercisers. The key difference is that participation in endurance exercise makes it highly unlikely that someone will keel over between the ages of 50 and 69. Such deaths, which occur more frequently in the team-sport, power-sport, and sedentary groups, are shifted into the seventh decade of life in those who huff and puff while running, skiing, cycling, or walking several times each week.

And Dr. Levine went out and bought a treadmill...

[ETFnerd]

hey loren... dr. levine's paper directly references crohn's disease so this paper may be of interest to you...