When this happens, the pancreas produces greater amounts to compensate, flooding the bloodstream with insulin; high levels of insulin in the blood have been linked to [some types of] cancer.
Exercise may also help reduce levels of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone in the blood, potentially also lowering the risk of developing breast and uterine cancers linked to high levels of those hormones. Despite the apparent link between physical exercise and lower odds of cancer, Albanes acknowledges that there could be other factors at work. This force stimulates the bone to maintain or even build new tissue.
But scientists have yet to figure out why. Recker says that researchers speculate, however, that it has to do with exercise triggering osteocytes the most mature bone cells to instruct bone-building cells called osteoblasts to increase bone formation.
Diabetes type 2 is a disease in which the body begins to ignore or fails to produce enough insulin a condition called insulin resistance.
If muscles and other tissues cannot absorb glucose from the blood, nerve and blood vessel damage ensues, paving the way for heart disease, stroke and infections. But physical activity helps reverse this process.
He notes that when someone runs, cycles or does other vigorous exercise, muscle contractions ramp up production of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase AMPK , an enzyme that promotes the breakdown of the fats interfering with the cells' glucose transporters. Leon agrees, pointing to research demonstrating that exercise leads to varying decreases on visceral body fat the fat surrounding organs , one of the key risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes.
Makes you smarter Researchers have long believed that exercise boosts smarts but there was not any hard scientific evidence until a few years ago. Now, says Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a neurosurgery professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, it's known that exercise increases levels of some molecules in the brain that are very important for cognition.
One such chemical is brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF , a molecule that promotes the growth and survival of brain cells as well as communication between them. Studies in rats show that physical exercise boosts BDNF levels in the hippocampus , a brain structure critical for learning and memory formation, which in turn helps them remember how to navigate their way through underwater mazes.
A randomized clinical trial published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people 50 years and older with memory problems scored higher on cognitive tests after a six-month workout regimen. Those study participants assigned to exercise programs scored 20 percent higher than their sedentary peers at the end of the six months, and maintained a 10 percent edge one year after the trial ended. It can help you stay at a healthy weight, improve your cardiovascular health , and even ward off depression.
But like most things, it's possible to over-do it. And getting too much exercise can have serious consequences for your body and brain. So, what exactly is "too much" exercising? Well, it depends on factors like your age, health, and choice of workouts. But in general, adults should get around five hours a week of moderate exercise or two and a half hours of more intense activity. Or some combination of the two. That's according to the CDC. But research shows that going way above and beyond that doesn't increase your health benefits.
One unsurprising study found that light to moderate runners had a lower risk of death than people who didn't exercise. But, in a surprising turn, some people who ran at a faster pace for more than three times a week had a similar risk of dying as the non-runners.
So running too much, and too intensely, seems to undo some of the health benefits gained from regular running. Other meta-analyses, which looked at a bunch of exercise studies, have come to similarly lackluster conclusions about exercise for losing weight. This Cochrane Review of all the best available evidence on exercise for weight loss found that physical activity alone led to only modest reductions.
Ditto for another review published in University of Alabama obesity researcher David Allison sums up the research this way: Adding physical activity has a very modest effect on weight loss — "a lesser effect than you'd mathematically predict," he said. We've long thought of weight loss in simple "calories in, calories out" terms. In a much-cited study, researcher Max Wishnofsky outlined a rule that many organizations — from the Mayo Clinic to Livestrong — still use to predict weight loss: A pound of human fat represents about 3, calories; therefore, cutting calories per day, through diet or physical activity, results in about a pound of weight loss per week.
Similarly, adding calories a day results in a weight gain of about the same. Today, researchers view this rule as overly simplistic. They now think of human energy balance as "a dynamic and adaptable system," as one study describes. When you alter one component — cutting the number of calories you eat in a day to lose weight, doing more exercise than usual — this sets off a cascade of changes in the body that affect how many calories you use up and, in turn, your bodyweight.
One very underappreciated fact about exercise is that even when you work out, those extra calories burned only account for a tiny part of your total energy expenditure. There are three main components to energy expenditure, Kravitz explained: 1 basal metabolic rate, or the energy used for basic functioning when the body is at rest; 2 the energy used to break down food; and 3 the energy used in physical activity.
We have very little control over our basal metabolic rate, but it's our biggest energy hog. Digesting food accounts for about 10 percent. That leaves only 10 to 30 percent for physical activity, of which exercise is only a subset. You can read more about this concept here and here. Using the National Institutes of Health Body Weight Planner — which gives a more realistic estimation for weight loss than the old 3,calorie rule —the NIH's Kevin Hall created this model to show why adding a regular exercise program is unlikely to lead to significant weight loss.
If a hypothetical pound man added 60 minutes of medium-intensity running four days per week while keeping his calorie intake the same, and he did this for 30 days, he'd lose five pounds. More on these "compensatory mechanisms" later. So if one is overweight or obese, and presumably trying to lose dozens of pounds, it would take an incredible amount of time, will, and effort to make a real impact through exercise.
That's why Hall thinks researchers find again and again that exercise can help maintain weight loss, but it doesn't help people lose weight. Exercise can even undermine weight loss in subtle ways. How much we move is connected to how much we eat.
As Hall put it, "I don't think anybody believes calories in and calories out are independent of each other. One study shows that people seemed to increase their food intake after exercise — either because they thought they burned off a lot of calories or because they were hungrier. Another review of studies from found people generally overestimated how much energy exercise burned and ate more when they worked out.
A single slice of pizza, for example, could undo the calories burned in an hour's workout. So could a cafe mocha or an ice cream cone. There's also evidence to suggest that some people simply slow down after a workout, using less energy on their non-gym activities.
They might decide to lie down for a rest, fidget less because they're tired, or take the elevator instead of the stairs. These changes are usually called "compensatory behaviors," and they simply refer to adjustments we may unconsciously make after working out to offset the calories burned.
The most intriguing theories about why exercise isn't great for weight loss describe changes in how our bodies regulate energy after exercise. Researchers have discovered a phenomenon called "metabolic compensation. In other words, our bodies may actively fight our efforts to lose weight.
For one fascinating study, published in the journal Obesity Research in , researchers subjected seven pairs of young, sedentary identical twins to a day period of intense exercise. For two hours a day, nearly every day, they'd hit a stationary bike. The twins were also housed as inpatients in a research lab under hour supervision and fed by watchful nutritionists who measured their every calorie to make sure their energy intake remained constant.
Despite going from being mostly sedentary to spending a couple of hours exercising almost every day, the participants only lost about 11 pounds on average, ranging from as little as 2 pounds to just over 17 pounds, almost all due to fat loss.
The participants also burned 22 percent fewer calories through exercise than the researchers calculated prior to the study starting. By way of explanation, the researchers wrote that either subjects' basal metabolic rates slowed down or subjects were expending less energy outside of their two-hour daily exercise block. In a more recent study, published in Obesity in May , Kevin Hall's group again looked at 14 of the Biggest Loser reality show participants. For health benefits there seems to be little advantage to doing more than five times 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week, but if you do perform more you may increase the potential harms.
Antoine adds: "As long as your sleep, diet and work life is balanced for you and your current situation, you will not be at risk of over-training.
Only if one or more of these factors has not been considered will overtraining have a damaging effect on your body. Unless you are an athlete or play high-impact sports it's unlikely you're doing enough exercise to cause your body harm. But if you're worried about over-training there are several steps you can take to protect your body. Antoine suggests using mirrors to make sure you're using the right form when training, as well as seeking help from a physiotherapist, personal trainer or strength and conditioning coach if you're unsure.
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