{"id":33951,"date":"2014-12-05T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=33951"},"modified":"2015-01-05T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:29:22","slug":"research-shows-protective-effect-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/research-shows-protective-effect-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Research shows protective effects of exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depending on your age, just one exercise session may improve the body’s ability to overcome stressors by potentially boosting the antioxidant system. These results are part of Tinna Traustad\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0study<\/a> published this month in Age, the Journal of the American Aging Association.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Click here<\/a> to see Tinna Traustad\u00f3ttir discussing her research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In her study, Traustad\u00f3ttir, an assistant professor of biological sciences, worked with two groups of healthy adults, one was comprised of people aged 18 to 25, and the other was made up of individuals at least 50 years old.<\/p>\n

Participants rode a stationary bike rigorously for 45 minutes and returned the following day for additional testing. A blood pressure cuff was inflated and applied steady pressure for 10 minutes followed by a two-minute break. The inflation procedure was repeated three times. Before and after blood samples measured the body\u2019s oxidative stress response and changes in antioxidant-related enzymes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we found is the young people got protection from this one bout of exercise, their response to the oxidative stress challenge was lower,\u201d Traustad\u00f3ttir said. The older participants did not have a protective effect after one exercise session, which may be related to impaired cell signaling, a process that could potentially be improved with regular workouts.<\/p>\n

Traustad\u00f3ttir\u2019s ongoing research aims to identify where in the cell\u2019s processes specific age-related changes take place. By better understanding cell signaling and the beneficial effects of exercise or phytonutrient supplementation, definitive recommendations could be made for improving the body\u2019s reaction to oxidative stress, which could lower the risk for many chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

At a time when many scientists study longevity, Traustad\u00f3ttir prefers focusing on compressing morbidity or what she calls successful aging. \u201cInstead of extending life, I\u2019m interested in minimizing the time when a person has some sort of disability or disease and is unable to do their activities,\u201d Traustad\u00f3ttir said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Depending on your age, just one exercise session may improve the body’s ability to overcome stressors by potentially boosting the antioxidant system. These results are part of Tinna Traustad\u00f3ttir\u2019s\u00a0study published this month in Age, the Journal of the American Aging Association. In her study, Traustad\u00f3ttir, an assistant professor of biological sciences, worked with two groups…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":33953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}