Endurance Training and Age-Related Decline in Immune Function and Endocrine Function
April 12, 2011 by Dr. Marc Darrow, M.D.
Filed under Aging, Exercise
Researchers writing in the medical journal Immunity and Ageing say that long-term endurance training has the potential to decelerate the age-related decline in immune function but not the deterioration in endocrine function.
Arai MH, Duarte AJ, Natale VM. The effects of long-term endurance training on the immune and endocrine systems of elderly men: the role of cytokines and anabolic hormones. Immun Ageing. 2006 Aug 25;3:9
From the article abstract:”highly conditioned elderly men seem to have relatively better preserved immune system than the sedentary elderly men. Long-term endurance training has the potential to decelerate the age-related decline in immune function but not the deterioration in endocrine function.”