Why exercise becomes more potent for longevity as we age.

BOOKS:

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
https://www.amazon.com/ExercisedSome...

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
https://www.amazon.com/TheStoryofH...

The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel Lieberman
https://www.amazon.com/EvolutionHuma...

PAPERS:

Exercise Intensity and Longevity in Men: The Harvard Alumni Health Study
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...

Is Exercise Really Medicine? An Evolutionary Perspective by Daniel Lieberman
https://journals.lww.com/acsmcsmr/fu...

The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans by Daniel Lieberman
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/...

Exercise as medicine–evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases by Bente Petersen
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

The diseasome of physical inactivity – and the role of myokines in muscle–fat cross talk by Bente Petersen
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

Energetics and reproductive effort by Peter T. Ellison
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

The evolution of marathon running: capabilities in humans by Daniel Lieberman
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

VIDEO:

Paleo Anthropologist Daniel Lieberman On Sitting, Meat & Exercise — Interview by Chris MacAskill
   • Paleo Anthropologist Daniel Lieberman...  

0:00 Filming a TEDx talk
0:29 Defining exercise
2:45 Why humans live long
5:25 Why humans evolved to be active
6:59 More important to stay active with age
10:16 Structural stress from activity
12:12 Exercise is not medicine