Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about how exercise affects skin.

Exercise can accelerate aging of the skin if it is providing a stress response that your body can't handle. If that stress

is outweighing your body's ability to clear the stress, it can age your skin more rapidly.

Or if exercise is done in the appropriate amounts

in a way that your body can recover from,

it can reverse signs of aging,

and I want to discuss that today because I came

across a really interesting study that I will link in the show notes that talked

about the difference in skin aging with cardio versus strength trading.

So I was recently interviewed on a different podcast and the host was asking me about why people

seem to like look younger when they lift weights and when they strength train.

And I think I kind of knew the answer, but I wanted to dive into it a little bit more because I wanted to see what the research was behind this specifically.

So I think I answered something along the lines of, you know, when you exercise, you exercise the anti-inflammatory and when you have less inflammation

everything else in your body just works better and including your skin. So that was

kind of my answer but I wanted to dive into it a little

deeper into a podcast because I thought it was a really interesting question.

And what I think is cool about exercise and really anything that you do for your health is that it doesn't just

affect one system of your body it affects every other system in your body so

exercise isn't just going to affect your muscles and your heart and your lungs. It's going to have a

positive effect on the function of your kidneys, on your digestive health, on your mental health,

and on your skin. So I wanted to see the effects that training had on your

skin specifically and I'm no skin expert. I did a bit of basic refresh for the podcast to kind of learn and explain why the

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