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Friday, September 9, 2011

Simple Tip to Radically Increase Your Cellular Energy Production

Simple Tip to Radically Increase Your Cellular Energy Production

Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 09 2011 | 

For more than 40 years, it has been known that exercise causes increases in your skeletal muscle mitochondrial enzyme content and activity. But increasing evidence now suggests that exercise can induce this mitochondrial biogenesis in a wide range of tissues -- even those not normally associated with the metabolic demands of exercise.

Problems related to mitochondrial content and function have been linked to a wide variety of diseases.

According to a study reprinted on the website Green Med Info:

"... [E]xercise may serve as a potent approach by which to prevent and (or) treat these pathologies ... in skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, liver, brain, and kidney."

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