What Exercise Does To Your Body
by Imone Mukhopadhyay (Physiotherapist)If I told you there was a pill that could improve your lifelong physical, emotional and mental state each day you took it, would you give it a chance?
Evidence from the past 20 years has been pointing to exercise and physical activity as the frontier of preventative medicine and considering the health benefits it has been proven to achieve, it’s really no wonder why.
A FEW BENEFITS OF EXERCISE:
- Relief of stress & improved mood [6] [12]
- Higher energy levels [9]
- Reducing the risk of cardiovascular, neurological and musculoskeletal disease/injury [1] [3]
- Pain relief [4] [5] [13]
- Weight loss [8] [10] [11]
- Improved sleep [14]
- Improved cognitive function and neural plasticity [2] [7]
A SCIENCE
Exercise isn’t just to make you feel like a guest star on Jane Fonda’s 1986 Jazzercise cassette *insert Jazz hands*. But, in all seriousness, exercise works at a cellular level [5] [6].
Exercise causes an increase in blood flow and our cells’ ability to nourish themselves while removing waste products. This increase in circulation and loading to the body helps with tissue repair, increases bone mineral density and releases endorphins, our feel-good hormones [6] [12].
‘EXERCISE IS MEDICINE’
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