"Can't stop taking medicine" turns out to mean this

Medicine is used to treat diseases. If you are sick, you have to treat it and take medicine. Once you are well, you don't need to take medicine anymore. If it is a chronic disease, you may need to take medicine for life.

There is a medicine that can cure almost all diseases, and it is natural and has no toxic side effects. You will definitely say that we are talking nonsense. How can there be a medicine in the world that can cure all diseases? There really is a medicine in the world that can cure all diseases, and that medicine is exercise. Today, let’s talk about exercise, a good medicine for preventing and treating diseases.

Exercise is a human instinct, and our ancestors have long realized the importance of exercise to health. Hippcrates, an ancient Greek physician and philosopher who is revered as the "Father of Medicine" in the West, wrote in his health regimen: "Eating alone will not keep a man (woman) well, he (she) must also take exercise,...", which means that you cannot stay healthy by diet alone, you must also exercise.

The first great masterpiece in Chinese history, "Lüshi Chunqiu", wrote, "Running water does not rot, and door-hinge does not have roaches. Movement is the same as the body and qi. If the body does not move, the essence will not flow, and if the essence does not flow, the qi will stagnate." The general idea is that only through exercise can we promote the flow of essence and qi and maintain health.

The sublimation of the understanding of exercise from promoting health to preventing and treating diseases was first derived from the British doctor Morris, who conducted a study on the health status of London double-decker bus drivers and conductors in 1953. In that era, double-decker buses did not have card machines or coin machines, and conductors had to run up and down the two floors to sell tickets, while drivers sat in front of the steering wheel every day. It was found that bus drivers had a very high incidence of coronary heart disease compared to bus conductors. Morris speculated that lack of exercise was the main cause of coronary heart disease, and exercise could reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease. This phenomenon aroused the interest of medical researchers in the study of exercise and disease prevention and treatment.

More than half a century has passed, and a large number of scientific studies have confirmed that exercise plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of various chronic diseases. For this reason, in 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine launched the Exercise is Medicine project, with the aim of making exercise a standard component of disease prevention and treatment and giving full play to its irreplaceable and important role in preventing and treating diseases. What diseases can exercise prevent and treat? Many, many...

Exercise can prevent and treat high blood pressure

The latest data shows that one out of every three to four Chinese residents suffers from high blood pressure. Hypertension in my country has the terrible characteristics of "three highs and three lows": high prevalence, high disability rate, high mortality rate, low self-awareness rate, low rate of rational drug use, and low rate of effective control. In the later stages, hypertension can cause stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and kidney failure, which seriously endanger health and is the number one killer of Chinese residents.

Exercise itself can prevent the occurrence of hypertension. In addition, for people who already have hypertension, exercise plays an important auxiliary role in lowering blood pressure. Exercise cannot replace antihypertensive drugs, but it can reduce the dosage of drugs, improve physical fitness and quality of life, and is an important non-drug treatment for people with hypertension.

Exercise can prevent and treat diabetes

The results of a 2013 survey showed that the diabetes prevalence rate among people over 30 years old in my country reached 11.6%. It is estimated that there are 139 million diabetes patients in the country, making my country the world's largest country with the highest diabetes incidence. Diabetes is a serious chronic disease, which often leads to hypertension, cerebrovascular complications, cardiovascular complications, lower limb vascular complications, eye complications, kidney complications, and neurological complications in the later stages. Exercise can prevent the occurrence of diabetes, and it is also an important treatment for diabetic patients.

Exercise can prevent heart disease

Heart disease is the second leading cause of death in my country after cancer. The most common is coronary heart disease. The possibility of myocardial infarction in the late stage of coronary heart disease is very high. In addition, high blood pressure and diabetes will inevitably lead to heart problems. Exercise can improve heart function and prevent heart disease. Even if you have heart disease, appropriate and safe exercise is an important means of cardiac rehabilitation.

The main benefit of running is that it improves heart function. Heart function itself is a predictive indicator of heart disease. The better the heart function, the lower the probability of developing heart disease in the future. Conversely, the worse the heart function, the higher the probability of developing heart disease in the future. Running can significantly improve heart function and naturally reduce the occurrence of heart disease.

Exercise can lower blood lipids and prevent arteriosclerosis

The harm of dyslipidemia and hypercholesterolemia is that it causes lipid deposition in the blood vessel walls, causing arteriosclerosis, thereby accelerating the occurrence of coronary heart disease. The occurrence of hyperlipidemia is significantly associated with lack of exercise and high-fat diet. Exercise has a positive effect in lowering blood lipids, thereby preventing arteriosclerosis and improving vascular elasticity.

Exercise can prevent and treat obesity

Obesity is now clearly a chronic disease, not just an excess of fat. At present, more than 30% of adults in my country are overweight, and more than 10% of adults are obese, and this figure is expected to increase significantly in the future. As a public hazard to mankind, obesity will significantly increase the incidence of almost all chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia.

Therefore, disease prevention starts with weight control, and it is natural to start weight control with exercise. Exercise increases calorie consumption and prevents calories from accumulating and converting into fat. Exercise combined with diet control is currently internationally recognized as the most scientific and safest way to lose weight.

Exercise to prevent and treat metabolic syndrome

The public has some knowledge about hypertension and diabetes, but knows very little about metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome refers to the phenomenon that multiple abnormal metabolic manifestations occur together in one individual. For example, obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, high blood viscosity, and high uric acid often occur in one person at the same time, and obesity is their common cause. Exercise has a positive preventive and therapeutic effect on all of the above-mentioned metabolic abnormalities, so exercise is the primary non-drug treatment for metabolic syndrome.