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Who doesn’t want to stay young? Everyone loves the energy, the zeal, the confidence that youth entails. So what can you do to have all this for long?
Research says exercising four to five times a week can help keep your heart stay healthy and slow down the ageing process. Different sizes of arteries are affected differently by varying amounts of exercise.
While exercising for about two to three days a week for about 30 minutes may be sufficient to minimise stiffening of middle-sized arteries, exercising for about four to five days a week is required to keep the larger central arteries vigorous. As the age increases, arteries become prone to stiffening, thus increasing the risk of heart diseases.
For the study, the research team examined 102 people over 60 years old, with a consistent lifelong exercise history. The subjects were divided into four groups depending on their exercise history-
Sedentary: less than 2 exercise sessions per week
Casual Exercisers: 2-3 exercise sessions per week
Committed Exercisers: 4-5 exercise sessions per week
Masters Athletes: 6-7 exercise sessions per week.
A lifelong history of casual exercise resulted in more youthful middle-sized arteries, which supply oxygenated blood to the head and neck. However, committed exercisers also had more youthful large central arteries, which provide blood to the chest and abdomen, in addition to healthier middle-sized ones.
The researchers said that Larger arteries need more frequent exercise to slow down ageing.
The findings will help the researchers find out if the ageing of a heart and blood vessels can be reversed by using the right amount of exercise at the right time.
