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[–] damnbiker [S] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Good question. I don't know, maybe there's something about intensive exercise that combats or negates the effects of aging by excess calories. There are a lot of things that happen in your body when you exercise intensively, things like hormone level changes and the like. I'm no scientician, I'm just putting out a theory here.

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[–] Daimao 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

Scientician here. People who eat more because they exercise more still produce more reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are implicated in aging and naturally occur during the process of breaking down food. Antioxidants are supposedly good at counteracting these evil molecules. In addition, there are probably benefits to moderate exercise in terms of life span which could possibly cancel out the damage from increased caloric intake (no source, just speculation). That being said, people who live to be 100 are the ones you see walking every day and only eating what they need, so I think that there is a sweet spot between limiting calories and exercising that results in a longer life than being sedentary and restricting calories.

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[–] fatsruineverything 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Also adipose tissue is biologically active in all sorts of ways serving as a de facto endocrine system. Too much screws with the body's fine grained albeit resilient systems.

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[–] Adi-opposed 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Free radicals are so fucky they just wanna bork all of your cells. You gotta give them molecules that can essentially "mop" those radicals up so they aren't just banging around inside you causing all sorts of mischief.

Also if you're restricting your calories /glucose intake enough, then you're going to go into ketosis and start using up those fat cells. Ketone bodies are great for you when they're not caused by low insulin (because then it's an excess of ketones AND glucose in the blood).

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[–] Unsung_Heroes_again 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

😄 sorry playing the devils advocate.

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[–] damnbiker [S] ago 

No need to apologize, it was a good question.