{"id":2523,"date":"2023-06-12T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2023-06-12T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:25:09","slug":"regular-exercise-could-increase-your-tolerance-for-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Regular Exercise Could Increase Your Tolerance For Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Getting into a regular exercise routine comes with a whole host of benefits for our\u00a0mental\u00a0and\u00a0physical\u00a0health, and researchers just found another one: It may increase your threshold for pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from several institutions in Norway studied 10,732 adults, with two batches of data taken 7-8 years apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data compared exercise routines with pain tolerance, as measured via a\u00a0cold pressor test, or CPT, where you dunk your hand into frigid water for as long as possible, up to a maximum tolerance time of 106 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results were pretty consistent: Those who were more active were better at handling the pain of the cold water for a more extended period, and those who increased their activity levels over the two survey points increased their pain threshold too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/regular-exercise-could-increase-your-tolerance-for-pain\">Science Alert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting into a regular exercise routine comes with a whole host of benefits for our\u00a0mental\u00a0and\u00a0physical\u00a0health, and researchers just found another&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}