BENEFITS OF INTENSE EXERCISE ON BONE DENSITY AND PHYSICAL FITNESS – (07-16-04)

Benefits of 2 Years of Intense Exercise on Bone Density, Physical Fitness, and Blood Lipids in Early Postmenopausal Osteopenic Women

While this study does kind of fall into the “how much did we pay for this??” category, the numbers found are interesting. And considering that in the last Updates, there was an article about biphosphonates NOT fixing microtrauma damage (the repair of which would occur in this current study and produce, in my opinion, a stronger bone), the percentage increase in bone density was pretty substantial. The increases in other indexes of health (muscle strength, triglycerides…) were also pretty impressive. Arch Intern Med — Abstracts: Kemmler et al. 164 (10): 1084 –

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