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What If The Best Medicine Wasn’t A Pill?

23 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by AI Mark arguing that exercise is like a "wonder drug": it improves blood pressure, blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity, aids weight loss, reduces heart disease risk, lowers cholesterol, improves mood, motivation and cognition, prevents dementia, builds muscle and bone health, reduces risk of several cancers (colon, breast, uterine, lung), improves sleep, and boosts sexual function/testosterone — all for free and without side effects. The speaker frames exercise as one of the best habits for a longer, better life.

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Imagine a drug company, pharmaceutical company, releases a brand new drug, and this is what the drug does. It improves blood pressure. It improves your blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity. It helps you lose weight. It dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, lowers your cholesterol. It improves your mood, your motivation, your cognitive function. It also prevents dementia, makes you stronger, builds muscle and bone health. And if that wasn't enough, it also reduces the risk of cancer, many cancers like colon, breast, uterine and lung. And it also helps your sleep. And if that wasn't enough, enough, if your sex drive is low or your sex function is waning, it helps with that too, by boosting testosterone. And the best part, it's free and there's no side effects. Amazing. Right now, people would line up around the block of every pharmacy in the country to buy this wonder drug, except it isn't in a pill created in a lab and no pharmacy can sell it to you. It's exercise. That's right. Moving your body. And it's one of the best habits you can possibly adopt to live a longer, better life.