Edward

I really believe if you are active enough in your everyday lifestyle, there really is no need to do anything extra. There may be some benefits to physical exercise if you are really sedentary, but you should be active enough without needing to actually go and exercise. The other thing is the reason you feel better when you exercise is I believe that is your body actually numbing the pain. This is similar to a runners high. Your body evolved to want you to do that extra exertion to get the food you need. However, just because it numbs your physical pains does not mean it is actually good in the long run, you may be doing more damage than good. I noticed this numbing effect rather quickly when forcing myself through pain, and it surely is not because my body healed the real reason for the pain. Some other risks from exercising are damaged joints and other permanent damage to the body. This is from damaged ligaments, joints, etc. Just ask anyone who plays sports or even weight lifts, they all have injuries. You have to come to the understanding that your body is like a machine, it wears out with use. There is nothing beneficial about your cells dividing more often to repair itself and the extra stresses on your whole body, plus the extra calories your body needs to process for the extra energy exerted from exercising. I'm not saying to not move around at all. What I'm saying is that a normal active lifestyle is all you need, anything extra is just wear and tear and exposes yourself to injury. For example, many people are getting more than enough exercise in their daily life, they should not think that they need to go to the gym or run. Its usually all about the diet.

Some things that are also just as important as calorie restriction. Don't drink Alcohol or smoke. What I've noticed is that people who avoid alcohol seem to stay much more coordinated into their older years. I would avoid it 100% to be honest, studies have shown that even small amounts of alcohol are bad. The simple reason why its so bad is that it literally kills your cells and poisons your body. The cells it kills have to divide to replace the cells it killed. It just wrecks your body. What I notice is that many people who are heavy drinkers seem to be uncoordinated drunk even when they are not drinking. This is probably because of the alcohol permanently damaging the cells in the brain. Sleeping is also extremely important. You have to really make sure you are mostly getting good night sleeps. This means if you have a job that is causing you not to sleep, you have to make changes. There are so many studies that discuss sleeping and how it will premature age you if you don't get enough. It also wrecks your brain when you constantly cut back on it. Avoid loud noises. You have to stay on top of your hearing starting at a young age. After being annoyed with old people who can't hear, I decided to look up if hearing loss is inevitable with age. What I found is it is not. There were studies that showed that old people living in indigenous tribes without loud noises kept 90% or more of their hearing even at old age. This study showed that most people lose their hearing because of loud noises. What does this mean? Avoid head phones and always wear ear plugs in concerts. Keep the volume at lower levels. If you want to extend your life then you should also worry about things like this if you want to have a decent quality of life. Avoid exercise for the most part, especially as you get older. Everyone disagrees with this but if you are skinny and on a calorie restricted diet there should be very little reason to exercise. Being skinny will not limit you to your chair and you will get more than enough by every day activities. Doing exercise is usually damaging to the joints, and over taxes your body. Running is the worse, any impact exercises are also very bad. My brothers friend was always doing all this exercising, I told him constantly that he is crazy and he is going to wear out his joints. A few years later he had knee problems, gut problems, and now can not do a thing. Your body is like a machine, over use it and you will wear it out faster. I don't exercise, but I can easily go and run a mile or 2 miles because I'm skinny and fit from just being active with my everyday life. Another example was I got a job that demanded me to move around a little too much, and climb many stairs. My daily footsteps went from like 6,000 a day to 15,000 average. I never felt worse in my life and I started to get right knee pain. I had no energy, I felt like I was literally getting old. Now that I got layed off, I'm starting to feel much better, my knee pain subsided and my energy is returning. I always feel best when I stay inactive, my joints feel great and my energy levels are there. If you feel like you have lots of energy, just sit back and relax, don't feel the need you have to exercise because the experts say that is healthy. Enjoy the energy and keep it by staying inactive.

I believe you have to be careful with using BMI as it doesn't take into account your frame size. There is probably a 20-30 lbs difference between frame sizes of the same height and body fat percentage. My father has huge 8.25" wrists, compare that to my 6.00" wrists. His skeleton is just much bigger, which equals bigger everything else. He is massive compared to me. There is no way you can compare our weight and BMI as it doesn't take into account any of this.

Doing CR theoretically should extend your life, but not just instead of living to 80 you will live to 90. It will also extend your younger years as well, you can extend your youth. For example, if you do CR from age 30 to 40, those years will be extended, so instead of aging 10 years, if you do CR you will age only 8 years. This means that biologically you will stay 30 to 40 years old for maybe 12 years if you CR. If you try and stay muscular from 36 to 40, which means you will have to consume much more calories, you will accelerate your aging during that period. So instead of prolonging those years you will accelerate them. You will have to decide if its worth it or not. If you can pick up some hot girls then it may be worth it to be muscular. Compare that to sitting inside on your computer depressed and skinny. I also believe that calorie restriction probably gets more important as you get older. When younger, your body is more resilient. When you are older, the added stress of a higher diet will age you quicker.