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Reply to comment by sekai_no_kami in Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer by 72%. According to the researchers, intensity aerobic exercise increases the glucose (sugar) consumption of internal organs, thereby reducing the availability of energy to the tumor. by Wagamaga
Good point. We have a tendency to believe that if some is good, more must be better, but the body (and biological systems in general) often do not work that way.
There's often a dose-dependent response, where a low level (or zero) is harmful/deficient, some moderate value is increasingly optimal until a point is reached where additional produces no effect and eventually becomes harmful.
A lot of people who live to be 100 merely had active lifestyles, but weren't athletes or preoccupied with fitness.
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