Exercise Spurs Molecular Change

Exercising spurs thousands of biochemical reactions that scientists still know little about

Muscle loss is an inevitable consequence of aging, but some people lose muscle far quicker than they should. Make sure you're not one of them by exercising and eating right.Anatoliy Karlyuk/Shutterstock

In the most comprehensive study to date of the molecular changes that occur in your body due to exercise, researchers have seen “an orchestrated choreography of biological processes.”

Researchers at Stanford University found that one exercise session leads to changes in a remarkable 9,815 molecules in your blood.[1]