Why is being sedentary so bad for your body?
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It’s not that it’s bad for your body. In fact just the opposite.
It’s the ideal state of your body.
The implications of that are that your body stops working hard to maintain your body. Because it doesn’t have to.
As you body starts to age then your body hasn’t been working harder to maintain normal cellular bodily functions so it’s more susceptible to decreases in functioning.
A good analogy is that athletes that train at higher altitudes have a distinct advantage over athletes at lower altitudes. Because their bodies get used to doing the same things with less oxygen. So when they go to a lower altitude their bodies can do more because now they have more oxygen than what their bodies have trained with and can perform at a higher level.
When your body get’s used to having to function at higher stress levels it’s better at performing.
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