13 - Improves immune function which decreases risk for infectious diseases

Hi Team, This is incredible! At rest our body produces 2 million new blood cells every second. These cells can last up to 120 days. In saying this, that means we have about 20,736,000,000,000 Blood cells right now in our body! Wow! Females have about 4.7 million blood cells per millilitre and males have about 5.2 million. So why is this relevant and what does this have to do with our bodies function?

Our body creates new blood cells from the nutrients that are in our body. This means if we eat fast food our body will create new blood cells from the nutrients our body can absorb from this food. Same as if we drink alcohol our body will develop new blood cells from the nutrients we absorb from alcohol.

These blood cells are made from these poor nutrition decisions, we both make and will stay in our system for up to 120 days. This is why our food intake is so important. So who is up for eating healthy foods perfectly for 120 days? At Xenus Fitness we aren’t so don’t stress if you are thinking the same.

However we do want to maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle. This is why many nutritionists recommend the 80/20 rule. To follow this rule we need to make sure 80% of our food intake is good and 20% can be whatever we choose. This will maintain our bodies overall health and get our bodies back to their optimum weight range. Please note this is a general rule and does not apply to everyone.

So why is exercise important? Now that we understand how our blood cells are created, carrying our vital nutrients and repairing agents and how long they can last. The next question is how can we improve this?

Exercise increases the amount of blood cells being created; it also increases the speed at which the blood cells travel throughout our whole body. This means through exercise we produce more blood cells and increase the rate at which they die off, thus increasing the rate at which we can improve our bodies function. This said if we have a poor diet and exercise frequently it won’t help much at all, because we are still creating blood cells from the poor nutrients in our body.

So to improve our bodies function we must focus on eating at least 80% good foods; the more we exercise we do the quicker we will improve our bodies function replacing the old blood cells with fresh new blood cells.

We hope this helps, have a great day;

Cheers, Xenus Fitness