exercise stops the aging of your mitochondria

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exercise stops the aging of your mitochondria

Postby soul food » Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:05 pm

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript ... =389261354

From Naked Mole Rats To Dog Testicles: A Writer Explores The Longevity Quest
FEBRUARY 26, 2015

GIFFORD: Well, in a variety of ways. They've found that, you know, when you're - just as your fat is this endocrine organ, a muscle works the same way. So when you're exercising, your muscles are sending out signals to other parts of your body that basically say, hey, you know, we're - we might be chasing a woolly mammoth or something, so you guys better be performing at your best, right? And it also - they've also found that it stops the aging of your mitochondria - the little power plants in your cells. And it reverses the patterns of gene expression that are associated with aging, so it sort of switches your gene expression back to a younger profile. It's very powerful. I mean, if you could put exercise in a pill, you'd make a zillion dollars.


also the gene expression part...seems important..

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