According
to recent research, it has been discovered that exercise is the
quickest way to purge the insides of your cells of all the unwanted
debris that accumulates there over time. “Broken or misshapen
proteins, shreds of cellular membranes, invasive viruses or bacteria,
and worn-out, broken-down cellular components, like aged
mitochondria, the tiny organelles within cells that produce energy”,
all add up over time and end up producing this “trash heap” that
needs to be removed. Cells clear away this debris and even use it to
give them energy through a “self-eating” process called
autophagy. The cell creates special membranes that collect all the
matter in the cytoplasm and then carry it to the cells lysosome which
breaks apart this matter and uses it for energy. Scientists have
found that malfunctions in this system of autophagy can lead to many
diseases and may even be a great contributing factor in aging.
Autophagy increases in situations of physiological stress such as
exercise. So an experiment was run in order to see the connection
between autophagy and exercise and how these two activities benefit
the body as a whole. The first strain of mice had normal levels of
autophagy but when they were forced to run, within 30 min, their
levels of autophagy level increases greatly. The second strain of
mice was altered to ensure that their level of autophagy would not
increase in stressful situations but is otherwise normal. When both
mice were set up to run the altered mice who couldn't increase their
levels of autophagy quickly became tired and weak. The scientists
also discovered that when put on a fatty diet the normal mice were
able to alter their diabetic effects through exercise whereas the
altered mice were not able to do so. This finding shows that exercise
can increase levels of autophagy which can in turn clean your cell
faster, making you healthier and stronger!
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1 comment:
It makes sense if you think about it. I don't exercise nearly enough.
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