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Founder of CompX Research Institute Explains How Exercise Affects Health and Aging

Monday, December 5, 2016 Anti-Aging News
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The CompX Research Institute's proposed new theory of aging posits that the aging process is the result of the progressive divergence between phenotype (what we are) and genotype (our genetic design), with that divergence being caused by environmental factors. Today, the founder of the Institute posted a blog that identifies intense exercise as the critical environmental factor and explains the mechanisms whereby exercise affects health and aging.
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"Any animal that is subject to the forces of nature frequently exercises with intensity," said the founder. "Otherwise it is killed by predators or it starves. Intense physical activity is as much a part of the evolutionary environment as is food, sunlight or air. An insufficient amount of any one of them will cause phenotype to vary from genotype. Human civilization allows us to choose not to engage in vigorous physical activity. As a result, we fail to activate the Growth Process, which leads to the progressive divergence between phenotype and genotype that we call the aging process."
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The reason that science has been unable to pinpoint the mechanism whereby exercise provides health benefits is that there are a number of different mechanisms at play. "Exercise can be likened to light," said the founder. "Both are critical elements of the evolutionary environment. A campfire is better than sitting in the dark. Electric lights are better, but no matter how bright the light, artificial light will not replicate the natural environment. Only sunlight has the necessary wavelengths that cause the body to synthesize Vitamin D. And in the absence of Vitamin D, the body suffers a number of health problems – phenotype will differ from genotype."

There are similar qualitative differences between types of exercise. Any movement is better than none. Steady state exercises such as jogging, cycling or swimming have been proven to provide cardiovascular benefits. But only intense exercise, at a level above the lactate threshold, causes the body to synthesize the lactate and other signaling metabolites (which the Hypothesis labels "Complex X") that activate the Growth Process.

"The Growth Process is evolution's mechanism for conforming genetic potential to environmental reality," said the founder. "Since most of the other necessary environmental factors have been accounted for, we believe that the failure to engage in the intense exercise that activates the Growth Process is the fundamental cause of the infirmities of aging. The good news is that just as medical technology has developed alternative means of administering Vitamin D, medical technology will develop alternative means of administering Complex X."

The Institute has created a website: http://www.compxtheory.com that explains the profound implications of the Hypothesis. The Hypothesis is available through the website.

About the CompX Research Institute:

The CompX Research Institute is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to further develop and raise public awareness of the Hypothesis.

Contact:

Mark EastmanCompX Research Institute, [email protected]http://www.compxtheory.com

To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/founder-of-compx-research-institute-explains-how-exercise-affects-health-and-aging-300372491.html

SOURCE CompX Research Institute

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