Stimulate Your “Energy Power Plants”

It may seem almost counterintuitive, but the best way to boost your energy levels is by doing short bursts of intense exercise. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know this is the driving force behind my PACE (Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exercise) program. Without question, short bursts of intense exercise are the fastest way to spark your mitochondria, the tiny “power plants” inside each of your cells. Mitochondria generate all of the energy you use to get through your day. And if you have a lot of them in each cell, and they’re all running at full speed, you feel like you can do anything… just like you did in your youth. That’s why we’re most energetic as children — when we have the highest number of healthy mitochondria. But your mitochondria decay as you age. They become weaker and die off. Nutrients like CoQ10 can help your surviving mitochondria make more energy. But to regain the lost energy of your youth you need to produce new ones. The research I’ve done with my own patients over the years has revealed that the most effective way of doing this is with brief bursts of vigorous exercise. PACE can actually increase the number of mitochondria in your cells. The process is called “mitochondrial biogenesis,” and it’s a huge deal in anti-aging medicine because it gives us the power to halt and reverse cell death and degeneration. By doing this you can control the biological age of your body. And you can prevent a host of age-rel...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Fitness energy mitochondria PACE Source Type: news