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. 2016 Aug 30;7:283. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2016.00283

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Representative health-promoting effects of sports, physical exercise, and resistance training on various organs. Numerous reports have shown that sporting activity promotes health and functionality of muscles, lung, heart, liver, kidney, brain, pancreas, colon, prostate, and bones. In addition, it is reported that doing sports improves sexual function and significantly impacts the composition of the blood. Abbreviations used are: DAG, diacylglyerol; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCV, mean corpuscular volume.