With the aid of powerful pharmaceutical drugs, people are living longer. I think we can all agree on that.
But the drugs don’t add health span (the number of healthy years a person has). I don’t think that keeping people alive for longer in nursing homes with pharmaceuticals is what people get excited about when we think about living longer.
By contrast, exercise is one of the most effective ways of adding healthy years to a long life. It can do this in several ways, from reducing cancer risk to improving cardiovascular health.
But you may not know that exercise can improve skin health, one of the most visual external markers of age.
Think of the skin of someone who smokes a lot, drinks a lot, doesn’t eat well, and never exercises compared with the skin or someone who is very health conscious. There’s a difference, right?
That’s why skincare is a multi-billion dollar industry because so many of us want younger-looking skin.
However, can we have younger-looking skin without applying products or taking drugs?
The answer is YES.
Exercise has been shown to help skin health, but what type is best?
A recent study out of Japan compared aerobic training (an activity previously linked to anti-aging activity in the skin) with resistance training in 61 healthy sedentary middle-aged Japanese women over 16 weeks.
Both forms of exercise significantly improved skin elasticity and upper dermal structure, and resistance training specifically improved dermal thickness, while aerobic exercise did not.
This is important because dermal thickness, which is the thickness of the skin, decreases as we age, so improving it is a good thing.
Also, resistance training helps decrease inflammation and increase muscle which has long been linked to longevity!
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