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Does regular exercise accelerate aging or delay it?

Everyone knows that life lies in movement, and there are many benefits to exercising. Persisting in exercise will undoubtedly make you healthier. As your body gradually changes, you will slowly notice positive changes in your posture, demeanor, and interactions with others. During the process of sticking to exercise, you will understand what it means to strive.

Some say that maintaining regular exercise is a refined attitude that changes both your body and mind, as well as your external world. Besides helping you lose weight and maintain a healthy weight, it also makes you healthier, younger, and longer-lived. It can be said that if you want to delay aging, exercise is definitely the best treasure...

Exercise gives us a better physique.

Research shows that 30 minutes of steady jogging can burn over 390 calories, while cycling and tennis can only burn 277 and 272 calories respectively in the same amount of time. So, if you choose the right exercise, you can achieve a satisfactory physique more quickly.

For example, long-distance running is the best aerobic fat-burning exercise. It will make your legs slimmer, your lines more graceful, your abdomen flatter, and your hips rounder and perkier.

Exercise speeds up metabolism.

Long-term regular exercise can improve the body's metabolism and accelerate blood circulation, thereby significantly lowering cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Additionally, aerobic exercise not only consumes excess body fat, preventing high blood lipids, but also consumes glycogen in the body, reducing blood sugar levels and alleviating symptoms of high blood sugar.

Increase personal charm.

Due to changes in physique, the secretion of various hormones will greatly enhance your charm, making every gesture exude the aura of a male god or goddess. Even walking down the street, the confidence gained from fitness will make you stand out.

Mental state will be better.

People who exercise daily are full of energy and radiate vitality. Their abundant physical strength will bring changes to their lives.

Seeing this, some people might think, 'Since exercise is so good, why not just exercise to the fullest every time!' So they choose some high-intensity and long-duration exercises, but often end up too exhausted to get up. In fact, an overly fast metabolism can also easily lead to aging.

Research shows that excessive or overly intense exercise not only puts the body's metabolism in an overly vigorous state but also causes some physiological functions to become imbalanced due to stress, disrupting the endocrine system and the blood supply balance of the cardiovascular system. This increases the blood and oxygen demand of muscles, reducing the blood supply to the brain and internal organs, putting them in a state of hypoxia.

At the same time, as exercise intensity increases, breathing frequency also accelerates, various tissue metabolisms speed up, and oxygen consumption increases, easily disrupting the body's normal metabolism, causing cell aging and harming the body. Especially for women, excessive exercise can also damage the uterus and ovaries.

Therefore, exercise can help us delay aging, but excessive exercise will accelerate aging!

Sweating = weight loss? Sweating = detoxification? The truth is here!

When it comes to sweating, many people's first reaction is heat! Besides heat, it's probably detox, detox, detox, burn fat, burn fat, burn fat. Otherwise, why do so many people say 'sweat is the tears of fat,' shouting 'let's go, steam sauna, do hot yoga, slim down'...

But,Is more sweating better for the body? Does sweating really have so many magical effects? What does the amount of sweating indicate?

Sweating = weight loss?

The more you sweat, the better the fat-burning effect??

During exercise, the body heats up, body temperature rises, and a lot of sweat is expelled, making people feel like their whole body fat is burning, as if they can lose 3 pounds after exercising! But what is the truth?

Sweating is the body's way of regulating temperature. When body temperature rises, the hypothalamus (the center of neurohumoral regulation) is stimulated, directing the skin's sweat glands to secrete sweat in response. When the body secretes sweat, it evaporates from the skin, taking away some heat, thereby regulating body temperature and accelerating metabolism, expelling a small amount of urea, etc.

Let's take a look at the principle of fat metabolism:

Fat is mainly stored in cells as triglycerides, which contain the elements C, H, and O. After metabolism, they are ultimately converted into carbon dioxide and water.

Experiments have shown that if 10 pounds of fat are metabolized, 8.4 pounds are converted into carbon dioxide and 1.6 pounds into water. The carbon dioxide is expelled through breathing, while the water is expelled through urine, sweat, and breathing.

In summary, more sweating only indicates that your body is really hot and needs to sweat to regulate temperature. It does not mean you are burning fat. If you rely on sweating to lose weight, the weight loss will be fast, but the rebound will also be quick. Because weight loss ≠ weight reduction!

Sweating = detoxification?

Does sweating accelerate metabolism and thus remove body waste?

Since sweating does not equal weight loss, detoxification must be correct, right? Doesn't sweating speed up the body's metabolism, which should remove body waste? Here, I mustsay very seriously: No matter how you sweat, 99% of the components are water, and other substances account for less than 1%.

And in this 1%, there are sodium, potassium, calcium, chlorine, and urea nitrogen, among which the only one that can be related to 'toxins' is urea nitrogen, which is mainly expelled through urine. The amount in sweat is really negligible.

But you say that after sweating, like steaming sauna, doing hot yoga, exercising, wrapping in plastic wrap... your skin feels particularly good. Isn't it because detoxification cleansed the pores? Well... actually not. Sweat glands and sebaceous glands are separate. Sweating does not clean pores. The improvement in skin is because exercise promotes the body's metabolism, not because of sweating detoxification. The body does not have so many toxins to expel. The liver is responsible for detoxification.

Although sweating does not promote weight loss or detoxification, the feeling of sweating during exercise helps release stress and improves mood. Remember to develop the habit of loving exercise; it can also help you lose weight!