Brief forceful exercise is likely to slow down the process of ageing, according to finding of a new study that could help to explain why people with healthy lifestyle are likely to live longer. It is found that just fifteen minutes of forceful activity a day can reduce your stress and prevent the corrosion of essential cells that lead to sensation and looking older.
The increase in activity level not only makes you feel better but it also improves the ability of cells in your body to fight against diseases and premature ageing. These effects appear from increasing the level of enzyme telomerase that plays a decisive part in controlling the cells of ageing.
The study is constructed on the basis of earlier work which showed that how changes in DNA in the body consequence in ageing, explained Psychologist Dr Eli Puterman, who led the US research, team at the University of California in San Francisco. They studied the effect of exercise on shielding strips of DNA known as telomeres.
Telomeres are tiny caps on the tops of chromosomes that shield against ageing process and inflammation. They are also called the chromosomal clock because they seem to be central to biological ageing. They abbreviate over the time and after certain point, they are no longer able to prevent the DNA falling.
Women who did about fifteen minutes of brief forceful exercise a day were able to stop the shortening of DNA strips, was found in the latest study. Even a moderate amount of forceful exercise seemed to provide a decisive amount of protection for the telomeres. Forty-two minutes of forceful exercise over three days period was shown to protect telomere length explained an associate professor Dr Elissa Epel.
On trial over sixty-two post-menopausal women who reported how many minutes of forceful activity they had occupied in how stressed they felt, at the end of each day. Blood samples were taken to measure the telomere length of their immune cells. Their results showed that stress encouraged immune cell ageing by shortening of telomeres. But stressed women were able to stop the process of ageing by forceful exercise.