Short-term elevations in cortisol, blood pressure, inflammatory cytokines, electrolytes, and blood volume caused by training trigger adaptations that reduce these markers long-term.

“during exercise the degree of adaptation that one triggers is often associated with things that normally we don't associate with exercise related health things like huge increases in blood pressure during exercise huge increases in inflammatory markers muscle damage and these all things all sound terrible but as you beautifully explained all of that triggers adaptations that then bring those markers below the Baseline with which they were previous to the exercise”