Santa Barbara Chiropractor: Just how Exercise Slows Down aging

Santa Barbara Chiropractic Weekly health Updates:

exercise slows many of the degenerative issues that result from aging. This definitely seems to be the result of alterations in a multitude of biological functions and systems — exercising in fact adjusts the operation of your metabolism, which makes it work much better.

There are lots of proposed mechanisms for the effects of exercising, including:

 * The induction of heat shock proteins
 * Boost in cardiac antioxidant capacity
 * Expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress proteins
 * Anatomical and physiological modifications in the coronary arteries
 * Changes in nitric oxide creation
 * Adaptational changes in cardiac mitochondria
 * Improved autophagy
 * Improved function of sarcolemmal and/or mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels