Professor Andrea Meyer

So you already have the motivation, I heard, which is absolutely great.

And we should all move.

Um,

So physical activity is very nice because if you are physically active, your circulation is much, much better.

Your heart is pumping much, much more.

And what we know not only on systemic levels, so for example, you are physically active, you really feel your heart, you see that your skin is going to glow because of the physical activity.

We also know that it has very positive effects on cellular level.

If we are physically active, our muscle is able to produce, for example, myokines.

So myos is nothing else than sclesial muscle.

And then myokines are... These are hormones produced by the muscle tissue.

Yeah, it's not so much.

Myokines can also be inflammatory molecules.

So it's a group of molecules which are...

positively regulating cellular activity, for example, your brain activity.

What we also know is that if somebody is physically active and going from a non-active to an active state, that the mitochondria in a cell, which is actually essential to build energy of your cell and there was the body,

is much, much better.

So physical activity is influencing positively nearly all hallmarks of aging.

Hallmarks of aging are the mechanisms why we age, why we have gray hair, why we have more fat in the end compared to muscle, why we have age-related diseases.

So physical activity is the best neuroprotective interventions anybody can do.

And of course, next to lifestyle interventions like a better diet and sleep, for example.