Gabe Mirkin talks exercise

I am a bit of a fan of Dr Gabe Mirkin, he has great info on his blog and i used to run across his readio show but sadly I haven’t lately. Here are a couple of articles that he recently wrote that I have hung onto but wanted to post today.

Healing time increases with age although exercise helps

Animal studies suggest that exercise may be even more important for older people than for younger ones. A report from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shows that exercise significantly decreased wound size and increased healing rate in older mice. However, exercise had little effect on the rate of wound healing in young mice. (American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, November 14, 2007). Read the rest of this entry »

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