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You won’t believe how much exercise it takes to ‘substantially’ protect your heart

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You won't believe how much exercise it takes to 'substantially' protect your heart

Exercise is one of the best things you can do to increase your chances of living a long, healthy life. But the findings released this week may set the bar a little too high, at least for the average weekend warrior. Scientists from China’s Macau University of Technology and elsewhere examined data from a study … Read more

Exercise changes the heart in ways researchers didn’t expect

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Exercise can do more than strengthen your heart and muscles. New research suggests that regular aerobic exercise physically restructures the nervous system that controls your heartbeat, potentially changing key nerve clusters differently on the left and right sides of your body. Credit: Stock Researchers have found that exercise alters heart-related neural structures in surprisingly heterogeneous … Read more