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Exercise Positively Impacts Every Organ in Your Body, Not Just Muscle
Findings continue to amaze
Some things are worth the hype.
You don’t need me to tell you — exercise has tremendous benefits for regular practitioners — countless influencers, gurus, and healthcare providers are already doing so. What I will say is, like clockwork, every week we learn about even more benefits we were previously unaware of.
What did we discover recently? In the latest study on the benefits of exercise courtesy of MIT and Harvard, researchers found: physical activity causes many cellular and molecular changes in all 19 of the organs they studied in the animals.
Exercise not only imparts cardiovascular and musculoskeletal benefits — which we already knew — it improves the health of organs like the liver, kidneys, and adrenals.
It can’t be overstated — exercise is the single best thing for a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life hands down.
In all, the teams at Harvard and MIT performed nearly 10,000 assays to make about 15 million measurements on blood and 18 solid tissues. They found that exercise impacted thousands of molecules, with the most extreme changes in the adrenal gland — which produces hormones that regulate many important processes such as immunity…
