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i wanted to create this video on the best exercise  that you can do to increase your telomeres now  

what’s a telomere a telomere  is like this protective coating  

on the end of your chromosomes to protect your  genes and the significance of this is that the  

longer the telomeres the longer you potentially  can live and so there’s a whole series of  

epigenetic things that you can do to  keep these telomeres very very high and  

i’ve done another video on all the different  foods and remedies that you can take but in  

this video we’re going to talk specifically  about exercise so based on the data so far  

physical activity in general despite the type of  exercise is associated with longer telomeres so in  

other words the more active you are the longer  you’re going to live so the next point is this  

there was a significant association with robust  and moderate exercise and i’m mainly talking about  

high intensity interval training okay that’s  a very intense workout but of short duration  

and aerobic endurance training both of those  types of exercise show significant association  

with an increased telomere length now the  reason why that is is because you’re decreasing  

oxidative stress you’re actually getting your  body into a situation where it’s adapted enough  

to handle more oxidative stress oxidative stress  and inflammation are two things that really mess  

up your genes and both of these exercises do  reduce inflammation but in this study there was a  

subgroup of exercise which is just aerobic  exercise so it wasn’t the endurance type  

it was just a short workout of aerobic exercise  and another category called resistance training  

both of these subcategories did not show an  association with increased telomere length however  

there’s a lot of great data on resistance training  improving cardiovascular function decreasing risk  

of dying from a heart attack and other reasons why  you might die all right thanks for watching so if  

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