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Exercise doesn't just strengthen your heart. It rewires it
Exercise does more than make the heart stronger. New research suggests it also physically reshapes the nerves that control the heart, revealing an unexpected difference between the left and right sides of the body.
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Exercise does more than make the heart stronger. New research suggests it also physically reshapes the nerves that control the heart, revealing an unexpected difference between the left and right sides of the body. Scientists at the University of Bristol (UK) discovered that moderate aerobic exercise changes the structure of nerve cells involved in regulating heart activity. Even more surprisingly, the changes were dramatically different on the two sides of the body.
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