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If everyone on Earth got enough exercise tomorrow, the effect would probably be to increase healthy human life expectancy by almost a year. But how much exercise is optimal? Very high levels are actually bad for you, not simply in terms of torn muscles or sprained ligaments.

It can suppress the immune system and increase the risk of upper respiratory illness. Just over 30 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity is enough for most people. Not only does that make you stronger and fitter, it has been shown to reduce harmful inflammation and even improve mood. However fit you are and well you eat, your immune system will, unfortunately, get less effective as you get older.

It all starts to go downhill in early adulthood when the thymus — a bowtie-shaped organ in your throat — starts to wither. You can help — a bit — by making sure you have enough key vitamins, especially A and D. A promising area of research is looking at signals that the body sends to help make more immune cells, particularly a molecule called IL We may soon be able to produce drugs that contain this molecule , potentially boosting the immune system in older people.

Senescence is a toxic state that cells enter into as we get older, wreaking havoc across the body and generating chronic low-grade inflammation and disease — essentially causing biological ageing.

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