how much exercise is too much?

this is a very interesting question. Here is an email we were sent this morning:

"I appreciate all of your articles. I just wanted to share with you a valuable point that I learned from your site. You recommended the book Slow Burn a while back. It had great information in it. I am a critical care nurse for 30 years. I pride myself on knowing how the body works, but mostly in crisis situations and in multi-system organ failure states.

One of these states is metabolic acidosis. (Link to Wikipedia definition)

The patients will not respond to any treatment until the acidosis is fixed. I have also been into health and fitness especially for the last 5 years. I was going through perimenopause, which threw me for a loop as it seemed no matter what I did, I could not lose the weight. I worked out with a trainer who worked me hard. She saw that despite vigorous heavy weight/strength training, my body was not building muscle.

I was desperately trying to lose weight. I would spend 2-3 hours a day at the gym between cardio/weights/pilates/spin/yoga. My trainer told me that too much was not good, but she could not tell me why. So for over 3 years, I overtrained with little results, and I would come home with purple fingers and toes and mottling over my extremities, and felt lousy.

It took reading the book Slow Burn to find out that I was becoming acidotic--like my sick patients--thus releasing free radicals in my bloodstream, and actually causing more harm than good. And I see this behavior all the time at my gym now. I hope to spread the message that too much is very harmful. Now I limit my workouts to no more than an hour, and see more results. I really do appreciate all of your updates, as I pass this info on to my friends, nurses, and trainers."

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Tue. Mar 2, 11:10am

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