It's called the human genetic code, the blueprint for how your body is designed to function. I call it our "owner's manual" and it's loaded with all kinds of codes and scripts that tell our cells how to function. It codes for how we should sleep, eat, exercise, and live. For example, we are not coded to eat grains and properly process them. If we do, we set ourselves up for digestive and inflammatory trouble as a consequence. It is what happens when you do not "read" your owner's manual. Are genes encode us to eat nutrient dense foods. What we eat will influence how are genes are expressed. The same goes for exercise.
We are also coded to exercise and exert a certain way: with short bursts of activity, followed by rest. Our bodies are not meant to exercise for prolonged durations at a steady rate, what I call durational exercise, something that "cardio" workouts typify. Do you think cavemen woke up, crawled out of the cave, and started to run for 30 or 45 minutes just to run? It would waste too much energy. They would either run after their food, or run away from being some other predator's food. They would exert maximally for a short burst of intense activity followed by a period of rest and nutrition.
It serves us well to understand how our genes code for our existence and to do things (lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc.) that maximize proper gene expression.
It serves us well to understand how our genes code for our existence and to do things (lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc.) that maximize proper gene expression.
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