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Email to a friendExcessive exercise causes free radicals???
How does that happen? Is that excessive Lactic Acid? Not cooling down after wards?
Posted by Dennis Dilday, Everett, Washington | Oct 06, 2009
Dealing with the Negative Effects of Exercise
So here's a question: When you recommend that your clients/patients do exercise, do you talk about overall increase in oxidative stress on their bodies and what they can do to deal with that?
May folks who exercise quite hard on a regular basis have no idea that they are creating massive amounts of free radicals as a result.
What about that? I think it raises all kinds of other interesting questions about the "sustainability" of one's exercise choices. But aside from that, what to do about the increase in free radicals?
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Posted by Jacob Caldwell, LMP, Seattle (Capitol Hill), Washington | Oct 07, 2009 -
Posted by Dennis Dilday, Everett, Washington | Oct 07, 2009Any exercise leads to increased metabolism, increased metabolism leads to increased free radicals (i.e., oxidative stress). The more exercise the more free radicals, the more stress. (If this feels like news to you, you are not alone. We are conditioned to think of exercise as pretty much all good. There are two sides to everything.
As for not cooling down, no. Free radical damage is fast - very fast.
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Posted by Jacob Caldwell, LMP, Seattle (Capitol Hill), Washington | Oct 14, 2009
I am still baffled as to what this is.
Is it exercise releases toxins? Too many toxins released at once is bad?
So what do you do about that? Drink a lot of water?
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Posted by Dennis Dilday, Everett, Washington | Oct 14, 2009
You could probably Google "oxidative stress" and "exercise" as the simplest way to learn more.
And no. You eat a rainbow of whole foods: fruits, vegetable, berries, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. (9-13 fruits and vegetables per day is the current Government recommendation.) See our blog for an entire page dedicated to the ONE book on diet that everyone should read in my opinion. (Search "The China Study"
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