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Exercise May Keep Your Cells Biologically Young - Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Study Finds 50-Year-Old Athletes Have Cells That Look Decades Younger

By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
Dec. 1, 2009

People who run everyday do it to keep their hearts strong, spirits up and waistlines trim, but how many could guess that sweating it out on the treadmill may actually fight aging?

A new study in the journal Circulation, shows that vigorous exercise may be inducing a natural anti-aging effect that goes right down to our DNA.

"People who exercise have better health and live longer, however the mechanisms are not completely understood," said Dr. Ulrich Laufs, lead author of the new study and researcher at the University of Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany "You'd be amazed at how little we know about the mechanism of exercise on the cellular level."


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