If you want a younger heart, hit up a high-intensity exercise class. Those are the findings of Benjamin Levine, M.D., according to NPR. Levine has noted that the efficiency of the heart to process oxygen can decline once a person reaches 50 years of age or older — or even younger for folks who do not exercise. However, Levine’s new study, published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation journal, determined that higher-intensity workouts literally made hearts function as younger, more pliable and flexible hearts.
Levin, who serves as Dallas’ director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and as a cardiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, noted that the heart and blood vessels can dry up like a rubber band locked away in a drawer when not put to good use. As a result, folks who don’t exercise might end up trying to catch their breath or experience heart failure symptoms.
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