{"id":57804,"date":"2017-05-31T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/whole-body-vibration-offers-many-of-the-benefits-of-exercise"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:42","slug":"whole-body-vibration-offers-many-of-the-benefits-of-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/whole-body-vibration-offers-many-of-the-benefits-of-exercise","title":{"rendered":"Whole Body Vibration Offers Many of The Benefits of Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whole-body-vibration-offers-many-of-the-benefits-of-exercise.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vibration platforms, belts, and accessories have been touted on late-night infomercials for decades as a simple, convenient alternative to actual exercise, but do they really work?<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study looking at the effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whole_body_vibration\">whole body vibration<\/a> on mice, yes, they actually do, by mimicking the benefits of exercise on muscle and bone health, and the researchers think the technique could help treat human health conditions too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study is the first to show that whole body vibration may be just as effective as exercise at combating some of the negative consequences of obesity and diabetes,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endocrine.org\/news-room\/current-press-releases\/whole-body-vibration-may-be-as-effective-as-regular-exercise\">says cellular biologist Meghan E. McGee-Lawrence<\/a> from Augusta University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/whole-body-vibration-offers-many-of-the-benefits-of-exercise-mice-study-shows\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/whole-body-vibration-offers-many...tudy-shows<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vibration platforms, belts, and accessories have been touted on late-night infomercials for decades as a simple, convenient alternative to actual exercise, but do they really work? According to a recent study looking at the effects of whole body vibration on mice, yes, they actually do, by mimicking the benefits of exercise on muscle and bone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57907,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57804\/revisions\/57907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}