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Now this is Dr. Mercola and I believe this is one of the most important lectures I've

ever given with respect to helping you understand just how important resistance exercises are

to not only slowing down the aging process but improving your overall metabolic health.

Now almost all of us know how exercise is so important but most of us don't implement

this knowledge because studies have shown that over 75% of us over the age of 65 simply

do not exercise enough to stay healthy but the key is to understand the type of exercise

that will give you the greatest benefit for the time that you invest.

Now I have a lot of exercise and I have been exercising for over 55 years now but the

first 40 years I focused on cardio exclusively as I read the book aerobics by Ken Cooper

was a position with the Air Force and NASA who helped develop their exercise program and at

that time there weren't many extra people exercising and it wasn't a fat and there were far

fewer adults out there even more so than the number is probably 95% now if we why do we need

exercise if we ideally we don't because if we engage in hard physical labor for our employment

we wouldn't need exercise formal exercises are only needed because most of us have long ago

abandoned and stopped engaging in manual labor and modern society has allowed us to purchase food

and shelter with relatively little effort so we need to exercise to compensate for this if we ever

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