Why Does Exercise Increase Lifespan?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
We all know exercise can help us live longer. But why?
Today, we’re going to dig into why exercise helps you live longer. Endurance running is in our genes. It’s a survival mechanism. Over time, our genes have adapted to anything that increases our survival. When you exercise, a lot of good things happen.
The leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. So, anything done to improve cardiovascular health would help extend your life.
An interesting study actually compared people who did physical activity vs. inactivity. They found that the group that did physical activity decreased their mortality by 30-40%, adding an additional five years to their life.
Why exercise helps increase lifespan:
• Increased O2 (blood flow)
• Decreased inflammation
• Increased parasympathetics
• Decreased insulin resistance
• Increased growth hormone
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg help you live longer, but the question is why. |
| 0:30.1 | That's what I want to dig into today. |
| 0:33.3 | So endurance running, okay, it's in our genetics. |
| 0:38.3 | Number one, acquiring food and number two, avoiding being the food, |
| 0:43.4 | being chased by a tiger, right? |
| 0:45.2 | So it's in our genes, it's a survival mechanism. |
| 0:48.0 | Our genes over time have adapted to anything increasing our survival. |
| 0:53.2 | Okay, so when you exercise, all sorts of really cool things happen. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, let's first look at the number one cause of death on this planet. |
| 1:02.0 | It's cardiovascular disease. |
| 1:04.0 | So anything done to improve cardiovascular health would extend your life. Now, there's a very interesting study I'll put the |
| 1:12.6 | link down below that that compared two things. People that did physical activity versus inactivity. |
| 1:20.3 | Okay and they also looked at all cause mortality and they found that the group that did physical |
| 1:26.0 | activity decreased their mortality by 30 to 40% |
| 1:29.3 | adding an additional five years to their life. |
| 1:33.3 | So that's pretty cool, but why? |
| 1:35.3 | Well, there's five reasons. |
| 1:38.3 | Number one, when you exercise, you increase oxygen. |
| 1:42.3 | And oxygen is part of circulation. It brings in nutrients. It pulls out |
| 1:47.9 | waste. And we know that hypoxia, which is the lack of oxygen, creates necrosis. It creates |
| 1:55.8 | death of nerve cells. And so the more oxygen, the better the tissues are going to survive. All right number two, |
| 2:02.7 | physical activity decreases inflammation. And there's definitely a correlation between inflammation |
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