Add a few years to life and reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes can regular short exercises lasting only 12 minutes. Scientists from the Massachusetts Harvard Hospital came to this conclusion, the material was published in the Scientific Journal Circulation, Rosbalt writes.
Specialists analyzed the levels of hundreds of various metabolites in 411 men and middle-aged women before and after physical activity.
It turned out that after exercises, the amount of biomarker associated with the increased risk of diabetes and fatty liver disease decreases by 18%, and the glutamate level, which is associated with heart disease, diabetes and early mortality, is 29%.