Study links 30 years of regular exercise to healthier aging markers after 55
Université Côte d'Azur researchers find lifelong exercisers show higher blood-oxygen saturation and heart-rate variability than inactive peers.
What to know
- Active adults over 55 averaged 96.8% blood-oxygen saturation versus 94.8% in inactive peers.
- Heart-rate variability was 49.9 milliseconds in the active group versus 27.2 milliseconds in the inactive group.
- The clearest differences were in immune and stress-response measures at rest, not muscle strength.
- The study shows association, not causation, between lifelong exercise and these biomarkers.
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ScienceAlert's writeup and syndicated posts on Mastodon and Reddit summarized the findings: active participants averaged 96.8% blood-oxygen saturation versus 94.8% in inactive peers, and heart-rate variability of 49.9ms versus 27.2ms.
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Looking at the table, the endurance sports are still pretty high up. Most of the stuff above it is niche/rich people sports. The real standout is Cricket, it is way higher than other similar sports for some reason. And although it is somewhat of a rich person sport in the west, it is mostly played in India so I think it would balance out.
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Do they go in to the types of exercise? RE Everyone doing strength training now instead of cardio.
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Researchers link lifelong exercise to healthier aging biomarkers — A study published in a peer-reviewed journal (DOI 10.1007/s11357-026-02504-4) by researchers at Université Côte d'Azur found that healthy adults over 55 who had exercised regularly for 30 years had higher vitality capacity, measured via resting blood-oxygen saturation and heart-rate variability, than inactive peers.