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A new phrase has struck a different cord in me lately if you don’t exercise your body will turn rancid. Exaggeration? Not as much as you might think. Much is known now about why there is a steady deterioration in tissue health if we don’t exercise. Sports and exercise are compatible.

If you don’t do this or that you’re fired – now, that’s what I call a motivational phrase. One that can put a spur in my butt, at least. Everyone can list a few benefits of regular exercise, but most of the time the reason’s don’t last for motivation to exercise. Sports and diabetes, I mean, it’s really hard to get yourself to exercise, even if your health demands it.

Visceral fat is a term for the greasy globs of fat wrapped around your gut. And this mess is surrounded by greasy globs of fat just under your skin. Lack of exercise plays a roll in how it got there, but we need to know much more about visceral fat if we are to be shocked enough to gym up.

The bomber got there because of all of that rich food you’ve been throwing back. But he really got going when your activity died off. Exercise could have stopped it.

You can’t see systemic inflammation because it’s invisible unlike an infection which is usually accompanied by an acute inflammation. Memory loss, tumor growth and on and on can be the result of systemic inflammation. Visceral fat is a source of systemic inflammation.

Now, here’s a kick, you can’t see systemic inflammation. When it pops up out of the toaster, you’re charred. It smolders unnoticed until the damage shows up so late it’s hard to reverse it.

Myokines are enzymes, expediters, released by skeletal muscles during exercise. They can reverse the systemic inflammation generated by visceral fat. And, they do this apparently by acting more like a hormone.

The problem is that the anti-inflammatory effect created by the myokines enzymes is limited by the amount of exercise completed. When each bout of exercise ends so does the release of the inflammatory suppressors. The inflammatory factors are released, but only as long as the exercise continues. Sports and diabetes, they go together permanently.

The survival of humans and animal is entirely dependent upon movement. Many of our systems came to depend on the organs of movement to assist them. Leg veins omitted developing muscles to return blood from the legs during evolution, instead depending upon leg muscles to squeeze the blood upwards. A number of other organs are just as dependent upon movement to complete their assigned tasks. The inactivity of modern life is defeating our bodies well organized economy of existence. It’s an absolute truth, if we don’t use it, we will loose it.

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