Exercise: The Most Potent Medicine

“I now consider exercise to be the most potent longevity “drug” in our arsenal, in terms of lifespan and healthspan. The data are unambiguous: exercise not only delays actual death but also prevents both cognitive and physical decline, better than any other intervention.”      

—Peter Attia who wrote Outlive.

“If exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.”

—Robert Butler, National Institute on Aging

Thinking about taking Ozempic or Wegovy to lose weight? One way to think about ultimately going off of them is that by losing weight, it will make it easier to exercise, it’s not enough to enroll in a nutrition program. If you want to live a longer, and particularly healthier lifestyle, so that you can continue (or start) to do the things you like well into your older age, it’s exercise (and as you get older, it’s weight lifting). 

Here’s an older post on this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exercise-beats-nutrition-richard-a-williams/?trackingId=qMkyOClFtsN7i0pX0DLisQ%3D%3D