Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />Running Slows The Aging Clock, Stanford Researchers Find
August 12, 2008
James Fries, MD, an emeritus professor of medicine at the medical school said, “If you had to pick one thing to make people healthier as they age, it would be aerobic exercise.”
Fries hypothesis was regular exercise would extend high-quality, disability-free life. He speculated while keeping the body moving wouldn’t necessarily extend ongevity, but it would compress the period at the end of life when people wouldn’t be able to carry out daily tasks on their own. This became known as the “compression of morbidity theory.” This is opposite to when has traditionally been thought. Some feared the long-term effect of the then-new jogging craze would create orthopedic injuries, increasing the numbers older runners permanently hobbled by their exercise addictions.
Through his study he found incredible health benefits for the runners. Runners initial disability was 16 yeasrs later than nonrunners and realized “health” for longer periods of time. “When we first began, there was skepticism about our ideas,” Fries said. “Now, many other findings go in the same direction.”
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