If you agree that exercising is good for the body, then also agree that exercise can play quite an important roll during recovery. Exercising will help your body preform it's functions smoothly. When you feel that cruddy and cloudy mental fog during early recovery, that is the perfect time to exercise. The more intense you work out, the more endorphins your body pumps out. The more endorphins you produce, the better you feel. It is as simple as that.
If you have ever heard of, or felt a runners-high then you probably should know that it is addicting like anything else that's enjoyable, and can be overdone. Moderating time spent to about an hour a day should produce desired effects, without a high risk of injury. Exercise can also be a God-send when it comes to addiction to opiate based drugs. When you are addicted to pain medications or illegal narcotics like heroin then all your body cells have gotten used to being saturated with the drug.
Cells in our bodies are constantly being generated. If you use these drugs for about 2 weeks or more on a daily or regular basis, then cells become dependent on being saturated with that substance. When you discontinue using for any reason the cells begin reproducing without the presence of the drug they were used to regenerating with. The lack of the drugs presence causes the cells to reproduce slightly differently and cause irregular function through-out the entire body. As you might imagine, this is extremely unpleasant and uncomfortable.
Exercising helps the body reproduce cells and do other bodily functions more efficiently. Therefore, exercise is beneficial in helping cells begin to reproduce properly after it's dependency. To put it simply you are dependent because the most small, basic part of your body , your cells are. This is essentially the same way alcohol dependence works. That is why exercise is good in early recovery and can be used throughout recovery to maintain that healthy status.
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