AHS17 Physical Activity as a Polypill for Chronic Lifestyle Disease - Darryl Edwards
Channel: AncestryFoundation
Date: 24/10/2017

If physical activity came in pill form, we would only be too eager to take our exercise medicine. Even small-doses extend life and prevent chronic lifestyle disease. But what are the underlying mechanisms behind reduced inflammation, healthier lipid markers and increased diversity of the gut microbiome that make movement such a powerful antidote to modern lifestyle disease. Even though most of us are aware that physical exercise is important, we are less familiar with the underlying benefical mechanisms, we are not aware of how to best access the benefits, and most of us certainly do not do enough of it.