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Why is exercise good for your lungs if it makes them strain extra hard?

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Dr. Stephen Southard answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Exercise is good: for "conditioning" your heart and lungs, but it depends on how hard you are straining yourself. Remember there is always such things as too much of a good thing. Strain the heart and lungs too much and you can suffer undesirable consequences.

Answered 1/31/2015

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