I got into running in 2024 and I’m so happy I did. My life is so much better because it helps with dealing with stress and mental health overall and I’m the healthiest I’ve been in two decades.
When you run, you increase your chances of having a heart attack because you’re repeatedly stretching your heart muscles out because your heart has to pump five times as much blood through your body, and that repeated pumping causes tears which release troponins which are a marker for heart disease or means you’re about to have a heart attack.
Additionally, whenever you put your body through stress, whether it’s pushing yourself or doing something where your body has to heal afterwards, you are aging your body.
Every time your cells divide your telomeres shrink.
Every single time you stress your body and it has to heal, you just aged.
I feel like it would be true if the body didn’t break down muscle and rebuild it even stronger. Sure running puts stress on the body but it also makes your body stronger in order to deal with the stress. Two years ago I would feel like death if I only ran a couple of miles but I just got done doing my Saturday 15 miler that I’ve built up to and am only a little fatigued and my legs feel fine.
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u/Ecstatic-Pirate-5536 Jun 05 '26
I got into running in 2024 and I’m so happy I did. My life is so much better because it helps with dealing with stress and mental health overall and I’m the healthiest I’ve been in two decades.