The Cellular Aging Caused By Stress Can Be Decreased With Exercise

The cellular aging is a very wide spread problem that is caused by stress and anxiety but now the US researchers have found vigorous exercises that can reduce cellular aging with the prevention of shortening of telomeres due to stress.

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This study was taken in University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the publication has been made in open access journal PLoS ONE on 26 May.

The exercise has always being a very affective thing for the health but now this new goodness of it seems really exciting.

Co-lead investigator, Dr Elissa Epel, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry while discussing about this study said that “Telomere length is increasingly considered a biological marker of the accumulated wear and tear of living, integrating genetic influences, lifestyle behaviors, and stress.”

And further “Even a moderate amount of vigorous exercise appears to provide a critical amount of protection for the telomeres”.

It has also been found out that short telemeters are linked with several health problems that include diabetes and other coronary heart disease even the early death. The study was actually carried on a group of women and at the end of each day the reports were collected from them and in those assessments it was found out that the blood circulation along the body was improved along with the decreased levels of stress.

Thus after the study the researchers suggested that for the group of older women the levels of vigorous exercise is important to buffer the effect that psychological stress has on telemeter.