Effects of Exercise on Biomarkers in Health and Disease: Some New Insights with Special Focus on Extreme Exercise and Healthy Ageing

摘要

Health conditions associated with sedentary lifestyles continue to grow. Indeed, growing epidemics such as obesity and diabetes have been devastating for the human population. There have been improvements in medical care and new drugs, but neither seem to show signs that these tendencies can be stopped. More active lifestyles, namely including guided or non-guided physical activity, have been pointed out as strategies that are able to help in this battle. Past research has focused on the effects of exercise on health-related markers. Nevertheless, constant changes in demographics of major diseases, new treatment and therapeutics, and innovative proposals of exercise interventions all lead me to believe that the research on the overall contribution of exercise to public health has yet to peak.