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His wife was asking him: “Don’t you love me anymore? What’s wrong?”
But he couldn’t even answer her…
He was too embarrassed about this secret he was hiding from the world…
And he was so worried that his marriage was going to fall apart, that he was pushing away the woman who loved him the most…
Here’s the terrible secret he was hiding from his wife…
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Warning: exercising like this can actually shorten your life
Moderate exercise is great for your health.
It can help to move toxins through the lymphatic system, build and maintain muscle, reduce stress…
…maintain mobility, and improve feelings of well-being.
Exercise helps to maintain a healthy body weight and seems to be essential for brain health.
But moderation is the key…
These days most people either get no exercise or far too much.
And excessive strenuous exercise is stress that the body cannot properly recover from.
Long-distance runners suffer from heart inflammation, enlarged hearts and shrinkage of other organs.
Extreme athletes are far more likely to die of sudden, unknown causes – particularly related to the cardiovascular system. (STRESS!)
And recent research from Japan shows that chronic, excessive amounts of physical activity can shorten the average lifespan.
The human research was carried out at Tokyo Tech Institute of Liberal Arts. The paper was published in Nature.
We already know that many lifestyle factors including sleeping habits, diet and psychological stress play a major role in our health and longevity.
“The long-term lifestyle is known to affect lifespan and mortality.”
These Japanese researchers were interested in elucidating the effect of everyday strenuous activity on lifespan.
Moderate exercise, walking, yoga, and tempered amounts of body weight and weight training seem to increase longevity.
“In particular, it is well known that exercise habits can decrease mortality.”
But what happens when we up the frequency and intensity? That was the question these researchers set out to answer.
“The effects of performing strenuous exercise, however, as an occupation over a lifetime have been unclear.”
The research was carried out on traditional Japanese performance artists.
The researchers looked at the lifespan of almost 700 of these artists who were well-known performers in a number of different fields.
“We show the effects of various occupations that include being sedentary and performing music and exercise activities and/or birth year on longevity of 699 professional male artists either alive or dead, as reported in books and webpages.”
Japanese performance arts are quite varied.
In terms of strenuous physical activity, 3 of the 4 performance arts looked at in this study registered very low.
These performance arts included tea ceremonies, comedic storytelling, and playing traditional musical instruments.
The fourth art however, kabuki, is a very lively, strenuous performance where the participants exert a lot of energy almost every day for extended periods.
“We found a significant effect of occupation type on longevity among the four Japanese traditional arts professions of Kabuki, Sado, Rakugo and Nagauta, which include strenuous exercise, and tea ceremonies, telling comic stories and playing instruments while sitting, respectively.”
Those taking part in the strenuous kabuki performances had significantly shorter lives than performance artists who spent their lives in the more laid-back arts.
“Discrete-time logistic regression analysis showed that the lifespan was significantly shorter for Kabuki actors than among the other three Japanese traditional artists.”
Of course, if we look at just this study we might say that the results could be explained by other factors.
For example, perhaps kabuki actors tend to stay up drinking until the early hours…
…while those who are experts in tea ceremonies and comic stories have a culture of getting a good night’s sleep.
But we see evidence for the causal effect of excess strenuous activity on longevity elsewhere.
For example, in the field of endurance sports which I explained earlier.
The causal role of excessive exercise on decreased longevity can be understood by the increase in stress hormones too.
Excessive stressful activity will keep these degenerative hormones elevated.
Chronically elevated stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline cause degeneration in the body.
This significantly increases the risk of major chronic diseases like type II diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
Whatever confounding factors might exist with kabuki artists…
…it’s fair to say that excessive strenuous exercise is detrimental to your health and will probably shorten your life.
Keep active and keep it moderate if you will live long and stay healthy!
“This result suggests that daily strenuous exercise as an occupation shortens rather than prolongs the lifespan.”
You should always consult your healthcare practitioner for guidance on medical diagnosis and treatment.
—-Important Message for Men—-
This new simple “exercise” replaces entire workouts
If you want to build muscle, burn fat, and get back in killer shape regardless of your age or physical limitations…
Just use this one simple “exercise” at home.
It doesn’t take much time at all…
And it has nothing to do with starving yourself, marathon-long cardio workouts, or lifting heavy weights like those muscle-bound bodybuilders at the gym…
It’s much easier, safer, far more gentle…
And most importantly, it uses age to your advantage.
See, the trick for guys like us…we need to train smarter, not harder.
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