Thanks Carolyn for starting this thread.
There's no doubt exercise helps just about everything.
As we age we become more prone to develop other fairly awful conditions as well like type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, obesity etc and this is also a way of keeping them at bay.
Since starting working out at the gym 3-4 times a week last year I feel much better in myself.
Like a lot of you now my life (pre DBS) was divided into being "on" and being "off". Not to mention dancing around with dyskinesia!
I wish I'd taken more advantage of the good "on" times by taking care of myself and exercising instead of getting on with day to day stuff like housework in retrospect.
I'd pretty well forgotten till I resumed regular exercise how terrific it feels and what a sense of achievement it brings me.
For those of you who have trouble getting around how about a reclining exercise bike? I've seen a fellow at the gym taken there by his carer in a wheelchair (so I'm guessing fairly disabled) regularly on the cycling machine and beaming after a workout.... just a thought.
Cheers,
Lee