Why Cardio Is Essential for Heart Health

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A large number of studies have confirmed that effective, regular, and moderately intense exercise can promote the recovery of cardiovascular disease patients, improve cardiac function, improve quality of life, reduce re-hospitalization rate, reduce recurrent cardiovascular event rate and mortality rate, improve endothelial function, stabilize plaques, reduce myocardial cell apoptosis, and promote the establishment of collateral circulation.

  1. Improve cardiac function
After oxygen is inhaled into the lungs, it must rely on the squeeze of the heartbeat to be transported to the whole body by blood. The characteristics of aerobic metabolic exercise are to make the heart stronger, beat more advantageously, and eject more blood each time, while also improving the blood supply of the heart itself. Oxygen is supplied to various organs and tissues in the body with blood. The faster blood flow during exercise also increases oxygen delivery capacity.
  1. Improve lung function
Aerobic metabolic exercise makes breathing deeper and faster during exercise, improves lung capacity, enhances the ability to inhale oxygen, and improves lung function.
  1. Control hypertension
Aerobic metabolic exercise can reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 11 mmHg and 8 mmHg, respectively, or even more. Hypertensive patients often also have obesity, diabetes, and elevated blood lipids. Adhering to aerobic metabolic exercise is not only beneficial for blood pressure control, but also for weight loss, regulating blood lipids and controlling diabetes, and comprehensively improving health.
  1. Improve physical fitness
Aerobic exercise can improve the body's ability to prevent diseases, delay the atrophy of the central immune organ-thymus, increase the number of immune cells, and improve the body's immunity.
Long-term and regular aerobic exercise also has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of some chronic diseases. Studies have shown that aerobic exercise not only has a certain preventive effect on diseases such as arthritis, cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, depression, etc., but also has a certain therapeutic effect on arthritis, cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so that the corresponding symptoms are improved, the quality of life of patients is improved, and the life span is prolonged.
  1. Increase lipid metabolism
Aerobic exercise can promote the metabolism of substances in the body, increase the activity of intracellular enzymes, balance anabolism and catabolism, and improve the ability to eliminate metabolic waste.
Aerobic exercise can lower blood lipids and reduce the cholesterol content in the blood. In addition, studies have shown that aerobic metabolic exercise can increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood, thereby reducing the possibility of coronary heart disease and vascular sclerosis.
  1. Maintain neuromuscular activity
Aerobic exercise can strengthen the blood circulation and metabolic function of bones, increase bone density, toughness and elasticity, delay aging processes such as osteoporosis and decalcification, and also enhance joint flexibility.
  1. Improve cholesterol levels
Aerobic exercise can increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, which helps maintain a good blood lipid level.

Aerobic exercise can regulate the excitation and inhibition process of brain nerve cells, making the brain react quickly and accurately, and not easy to fatigue, so that the body maintains a good functional state.