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Re:Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, Acc... by brigadier132 on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:38AM (#41455613)
This is a controversial study, apparently what they did to test for how exercise affected aging was they decided to control for "confounding" variables such as high blood pressure, obesity, etc. Except, these aren't confounding variables but mediating variables.

There was actually a youtube video about this very topic that I think is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic4nUxMYBRk

The takeaway is: If you are not training for marathons or the tour de france you are probably not overexercising to the point of causing negative health outcomes

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Re:Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, Acc... by tbe-stream on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:49AM (#41455687)
Yes, this is very odd. Exercise is healthy because it lowers blood pressure and BMI. They compensate for blood pressure and BMI, and lo and behold, no health effects are left..
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Re:Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, Acc... by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:17PM (#41460487)
To be fair, with exercise injuries are way more common than without.

But also those moderate "aches" go away with exercise

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