Exercise will save us

There are dogwood trees along the street west of our property. They please us with beautiful light pink flowers in spring. A lot of fallen leaves are on the sidewalks in fall. Those leaves are drifted at a corner of lawn of our property along the sidewalk. 

These photos were taken in Apr 2020. There is a meter wide lawn before the azaleas along the sidewalk.

Dogwood trees are not the topic of this post. I have brought the heavily piled leaves of the dodwood trees to a portion of farm on a uniycle carrier this afternoon. It could never be a heavy work even for me. But after off the farm work for weeks, it was a real heavy duty for me at present. Bad lumbago! I was wondering if I should stop that but, I don't know why, I got it through. 

Leaving them on a lot 1x10m, where I am going to plant potates this spring, I sprayed rice bran and soil lightly there. The leaves would become good compost by the time I plant potatoes. 

While sitting on a small chair and spraying them to the ridge, I have fallen into a shallow hole, 20 or 30cm in depth, and, alas, could not stand up from that supine position! Looking around there and confirming no one looking at me, I stayed there for a moment and stood up slowly somehow, with my jeans and upper wear fully muddy. Only for a minute or two but I felt it so long. I realized, at my age, no exercise could deprive me of such ability of motion quite easily. Senility is surely looming to me! Even in winter, I should carry on exercise, I learned. My wife, an enthusiastic sport gym attendee, told me, repeatedly standing up from the position sitting on a chair could be an exercise to stand up. I may follow her advice. Forgot taking photos of the ridge and the hole I fell in.

The topic is not ending yet. After that farm work, I am feeling less pain in the back now. And even feeling a bit lifted up now. That may be why I am writing such a lengthy post at present! Now I would go on exercising!

Ham radio camaraderie friends, I am finally reaching the main topic of this post now. Throw away mic and key, go out of the radio shack and start exercising.

A recent paper in ProNAS says, even in a finding with rodents, aerobic exercise could enhance repartioning of glucose between tumor tissue and skeletal/cardiac muscle tissue.

Of course, the latter increased while the former decreased. The exercised mice with tumor lived longer. This might fit to human. 

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508707122

In another paper, moderate degree exercise, 5000 to 7000 steps a day, is good to prevent progression Parkinson's disease in human study.

Moreover, the effectiveness of exercise is emphasized by a specialist as "Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known".

https://nuttycellist-unknown.blogspot.com/2025/01/exercise-may-be-single-most-potent.html

It may sound too much exaggeration to lead to the belief in exercise from my falling in a hole experience. But it might be of importance for ham friends staying up at ham shack withoug much exercise. This is the conclusion of this post. Thanks for reading it through.