Health is shaped and molded through your daily choices.
Do you know the scientific outcome of your daily life?.
Question number 48 in Scandinavian.fitness School of Fitness here at 'a Norse View'.
Most of the time our fitness school questions revolve around the scientific impact of your fitness and or food choices.
But every now and then we dip our toes into the wider ecosystem of things that carry with them a huge impact on our individual health, such as air pollution. Because a truly healthy life has to consider all aspects of our lifestyles.
One area of "air pollution" is smoking. Not only do non smokers hurt their health due to others unhealthy smoking habits. But the smokers themselves harm their own health in even greater strides.
So much so that Tobacco smoking is perhaps the biggest single influencer on a human beings mutational burden, usually adding anywhere between 1,000 to 10,000 mutations per cell inside of the human body. In the end, being a major driver of
various cancer forms and
fatally damaged lungs. But, the human body is amazing at recovering from almost all forms of injuries and health issues once we start making healthier choices a regular thing.
And now, a brand new 2020 study is
shining light on just how well a typical smokers damaged lungs will recover once that smoker chooses to stop their unhealthy smoking habits.
So read on beyond the break and let us dig deeper into the health impact of smoking and just how good our human lungs might recover once a person decides to end their self harming habit.
So the question...
Can the human body rejuvenate damaged lung cells if a smoker quits their unhealthy habit? Or is the damage to the human body so stark that the best case scenario is all about preventing further damage to the lungs?.
2050AD.
The developed world
[ Oceans run the risk of having more total weight of plastic than fish.]

Make up your mind, and once you have made your pick click the "And the Correct Answer is" label down below to reveal the right one.
1.
Yes, once a smoker stops smoking not only will they prevent causing further damage to their lungs, but already damaged lung cells will start to rejuvenate and replenish.
Allowing up to 40% of damaged lung cells to once again become healthy.
2.
No, the only thing a smoker can hope for is that they will prevent further damage to their already damaged lungs if they stop smoking.
3.
Yes, recent studies show us that once a smoker stop smoking, already damaged lung cells will get replaced by healthy ones, if you stop smoking before the age of 45.
In the study in question, it was found that people that stopped smoking had roughly four times more of healthy lung cells compared to current smokers. Regrowing as much as 40% of the damaged lung cells in a former smokers body.
Dr Peter Campbell. Lead author in the study.
"People who have smoked heavily for 30, 40 or more years often say to me that it's too late to stop smoking -- the damage is already done. What is so exciting about our study is that it shows that it's never too late to quit -- some of the people in our study had smoked more than 15,000 packs of cigarettes over their life, but within a few years of quitting many of the cells lining their airways showed no evidence of damage from tobacco."
And this is great news from a public health perspective, as well as from our Personal trainer and healthy lifestyle coaches point of view.
Because this scientific fact removes yet one more stair step of resistance towards making the rest of a persons life healthier.
It´s simply put never to late to start making a healthier rest of your life a priority. And no matter if it is about physical activity, or food habits, drinking or smoking, or just general life choices and our mental response to every day life, a healthier you is shaped by making healthier daily choices. And while that simply truth has a built in stairway of resistance, its never to late in life to start making those choices.
And that is perfectly illustrated in the scientific reality of this study on former smokers lungs.
But there are other key factors to take with us as well..
And the biggest one is just how bad the habit of smoking truly is.
Because not only is it the leading cause of lung cancer, and a big contributor to many other forms of cancer, and a huge mortality driver in both smokers and non smokers.
This study also display perfectly clear that not even our amazing bodies can fully recover from smoking.
Sure up to 40% of the damaged lung cells in a smokers body can recover, and will recover in the same way that muscle cells and mitochondria respond to an increase or decrease in physical activity. But, equally important is the fact that 60% of the damaged lung cells still remain damaged.
And on top of that, some of the other damages that smoking causes also happen to be irreversible.
Such as emphysema, a chronic lung disease.
So for clients that do smoke, its never to late to not quit because the rest of your life will become way healthier.
But for non smokers, the best choice towards a way healthier life is to never ever start smoking in the first place.
Just how big is the difference in the chance of developing lung cancer by the way, if a person end their smoking habits as opposed to perpetually upholding their smoking habits..?
Lung cancer risk in a former smoker who quit about 12 years ago, or more, is considered 72 per cent lower compared to people that continue to smoke.
You can find a link down below to the study in question.
Keep on grinding people, and stay healthy fit.
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