2 Years of Exercise Reversed 20 Years of Aging in the Heart, Says Longest-Ever Randomized Trial on Exercise
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Middle-aged hearts retain some degree of cardiac plasticity, and may represent a more optimal time—or quite simply the last time—to intervene.

it effectively turned sedentary 55-year-olds into 30-year-olds when viewed through heart activity monitoring equipment.

Being that heart disease is the leading cause of death for most people in the United States, and cardiac strength is inversely correlated with heart disease, it’s probably one of the most significant studies on exercise ever carried out.

  • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The study found middle-aged adults could reverse 20 years of age-related decline in their heart muscles through a 2 year exercise program, and that it effectively turned sedentary 55-year-olds into 30-year-olds when viewed through heart activity monitoring equipment

    through a 2 year exercise program

    Talking about return on investment wow

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      All I’m hearing is that I can still be a sedentary lazybones for like another 10 years before I need to start exercising.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      And that’s like 30 minutes a day!!! (~3-4 hours total per week at the peak iirc, and one of those is doing fun activities like canoeing, not on a boring treadmill)