Showing posts with label endurance training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endurance training. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Endurance Training and Aging
Long-term physical activity has an anti-ageing effect at the cellular level, a German study suggests.
Researchers focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age.
They found telomeres shortened less quickly in key immune cells of athletes with a long history of endurance training. -New German study on long-term effects of physical activity
MY COMMENT: Intuitively, we all know this, but now we are beginning to find out why.
Researchers focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age.
They found telomeres shortened less quickly in key immune cells of athletes with a long history of endurance training. -New German study on long-term effects of physical activity
MY COMMENT: Intuitively, we all know this, but now we are beginning to find out why.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)