Lifelong exercise not only keeps your body fat from over-accumulating but it also fine tunes its metabolic activity helping to prevent diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen make these claims after comparing the fat cells from 20 something male couch potatoes with those from 60 something men who either avoided exercise, exercised moderately, or exercised vigorously and consistently.
The studies confirmed that mitochondria, the metabolic engines in fat cells and, in fact, all cells suffer a natural decline in number and function with age. Those men who exercised the most over their lifetimes had fat cells with the most mitochondria and best-preserved mitochondrial activity. These vigorous mitochondria remove damaging oxygen free radicals that facilitate nasty and cancerous mutations. They also better participate in glucose metabolism preventing diabetes and obesity.
So lifelong exercise is a fountain of youth for your fat keeping it both attractive and functionally beneficial.
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glab356/6454992?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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