Zone Fitness - Thirty minutes a day, six days a week.

While any type of exercise will cause some inflammation, the appropriate amount of exercise—coupled with the Zone Diet and high-dose fish oil—can induce an exceptionally powerful anti-inflammatory response that not only repairs the damage to your muscle tissue, but also makes the muscle stronger in the process.

Exercise can help ward off aging by reducing silent inflammation. It does this by alleviating insulin resistance, which in turn helps reduce visceral fat, the dangerous kind that collects on vital organs in your abdomen. It is this visceral fat that triggers the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines like interleukin-6 (IL-6), which travel to the liver to produce increased C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Reduce this visceral fat, and you’ll reduce the primary source of much of the silent inflammation in your body.