Use it or Lose it

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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is broken – winged bird that cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes, (1901-1967), American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist.

Use it or Lose it.

With sports comes muscular hypertrophy, everyone knows it.

With reduced physical activity, with time – sarcopenia.

This is the pendant of it in old age.

Half a century ago physiologists organized following experience.

They asked top athletes to reproduce the same movements as little children.

Well, the champions were soon exhausted!

Hence, high metabolic range in youth has to do with activity.

Also, you can observe that neoplastic prevalence increases with advancing age.

Thus, you can expect to reduce this with all measures aiming at an increase in metabolism.

Well, physical activity is one, but also intermittent fasting unfolds positive features.

Ketone bodies increase mitochondrial activity, but if you consider cellular level, scavenger cells free space for new tissue, when nutriments are missing.

The opposite happens with excess of such ones!

Overeating brings obesity, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, stroke and myocardial infarction to name but a few.