Muskego Chiropractic Weekly Health Alerts:
Exercise slows many of the degenerative problems that result from aging. This appears to be the result of alterations in several different biological functions and systems — exercise in fact modifies the operation of your metabolism, which makes it function much better.
There are a variety of proposed mechanisms for the effects of exercising, which includes:
* The induction of heat shock proteins
* Boost in cardiac antioxidant capacity
* Expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress proteins
* Anatomical and physiological alterations in the coronary arteries
* Changes in nitric oxide creation
* Adaptational alterations in cardiac mitochondria
* Improved autophagy
* Improved function of sarcolemmal and/or mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels
