How To Stay Young Longer

Posted by Chris Christian Aug 22, 2008

The evidence continues to mount, exercise is the proverbial fountain of youth. Everyday a new study is released touting exercise as the youth elixir. Lift weights to sustain bone density, stretch to maintain elusive youthful agility, run to arrest disease. Science and medicine are proving one thing is for certain, staying active obstructs the aging process allowing us to preserve youth longer.

I had an inclination of this very hypothesis some time ago based on the physiology of the human body and it’s innate nature. We (at least some of us, a majority of us, you might say) are far too inactive. Think about it for a moment, our bodies were designed to move, if not we might be rocks or trees or mountains, a park bench, but we have limbs and lungs and the ability to use and store energy. We have muscles and bones and joints designed to generate motion. I was right.

Let’s use the old adage “the body is a finely tuned machine” yeah you’ve heard this before right? Well it’s true (which is why it’s an old adage) if you keep this machine stored in the basement and hardly ever use it, it will start to deteriorate form lack of use. Well the human body is pretty much the same although it’s not a machine, if it sits on it’s butt all day long rarely involved in physical activity, it too will begin to deteriorate. Illness and disease are the repercussions of this neglect.

Go down to the basement dust off your machine, oil it, use it, that is why you have it in the first place, right? Allow it to do what it was designed to do; either that or it will soon be off to the big junkyard in the sky!