Summary: Exercise Is Medicine

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• 1 Origins of exercise as medicine

• 1.1 Ancient Origins and the "Nonnaturals"

• Who are the 2 ancient physicians that believed that exercise is medicine?

  Hippocrates and Galen

• What did the ancient physician Hippocrates famously write about eating and exercise?

  Eating alone is not enough to support health, you need to exercise as well because together they produce health

• Galen, a ancient physician created a medical theory surrounding 6 principals about exercise and medicine. What were these three principals?

  1. Air
  2. Food and drink
  3. Sleep and wake
  4. Exercise and rest
  5. Excretions and retentions
  6. Passions of the mind

• According to Galen if you followed the 6 principals of the "six things nonnatural", in moderation what would result?

  Health

• What does Galen say will happen if the 6 principals of the "six things nonnatural" theory were not followed in moderation?

  imbalances of the principals cause disease

• 1.2 The Renaissance and the 18th Century

• Which Spanish, Renaissance era physician argued that exercise is "blessed medicine" in 1533?

  Christobal Mendez

• In the 1700s which physicians presented exercise as a curative which caused a social change pushing people away from heroic medicine and towards lifestyle interventions?

  Francis fuller and William Buchan.

• What did the 1700s, 18th century physician William Buchan suggest about exercise?

  Exercise can prevent diseases that are incurable and remove diseases where medicine is ineffective

• 1.3.1 Medical Reform

• what were 2 ways in which the focus of medicine changed between the 20th century and centuries prior?

  • Medicine shifted towards sick care instead of the prevention focused medicine.
  • Medicine became very scientific which caused medical training to become specialised leaving out physical education as a speciality

• 1.3.2 Changes in physical education

• What kind of change did the profession of "physical education" undergo in the 20th century that saw it become unrecognisable from its roots as a curative?

  Change was social, it shifted from education of the physical to education through the physical. As physicians left the profession coaches replaced them and the focus shfited from health to character development and sportsmanship