#4 Understand that sex hormones are short-lived, flimsy protection; exercise promotes sturdier hormones to live #OlderFasterStronger

 

Just when we get a grip on life in our 30s, they start crapping out, which leads to increased fat and reduced muscle mass, bone density, and heart, lung and brain function. But stress the body – and I mean push the pace; pump up the weights; pour out the sweat – and, at any age, the body gets the signal that you want to live, you need to live. And so it is so because it produces DHEA, which sounds like deity, and so it should, because this far sturdier steroid soldiers on, miraculously preserving our youthful superpowers long after our sex hormones have shot their wad. This evening I’m going for a dose of DHEA at the clinic – my run clinic, that is.

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