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The benefits of exercise are so great that if it were a drug, it would be a miracle cure. But what is the optimal dose for better health: are people who run ultramarathons, lift weights every day or swim the English Channel better off than those who just go for gentle walks? And is it possible to overdose? Now, thanks to large-scale studies that follow cohorts of people over long time periods, we can finally find the answers.
