Physicians should consider inactivity a condition requiring medical intervention, says Dr. Michael Joyner from the Mayo Clinic. The Journal of Physiology writes about his observations.
Research has linked a sedentary lifestyle to many health problems – for example obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic fatigue syndrome and joint damage. Lack of exercise is a problem not only for obese people, but also for those of normal weight – office workers, patients immobilized after an injury or surgery, or women in pregnancy pathology departments.
When the body remains motionless, its metabolism changes and many unfavorable changes occur in it – the heart becomes less efficient during exercise, bones and muscles weaken, blood volume and the ability to exercise decrease. When a person, weakened by lack of exercise, tries to exercise, they tire quickly. This prompts her to give up training and exacerbates the problem.
According to Dr. Joyner, lack of physical activity is at the root of many of today’s common health problems. Therefore, covering people at risk with medical care could improve the situation, as it happened in the case of addiction to nicotine or alcohol. An appropriate modification of the lifestyle and physical activity would be needed. Such changes would avoid the need for medication in many cases.
Dr. Joyner recommends slowly and gradually increasing the dose of exercise for people who try to increase their physical activity (PAP).
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