Dr. Mirkin: Prolong life with exercise after age 50
Since I fall in this category I am very interested in this subject. An excerpt from Dr. Mirkin’s latest post:
“Men who start or increase their exercise programs after age fifty live longer than those who remain at their present activity levels, according to a study in the British Medical Journal (March 2009). More than 2200 men were checked at ages 50, 60, 70, 77 and 82 years. The greater the increase in exercise duration over that span, the longer their lives were extended. The reduction in early death from increasing exercise was the same as for men who stopped smoking.”