Professor Juan Carlos Colado highlights the importance of physical exercise as medicine against ageing

  • Marketing and Communication Service
  • Remei Castello Belda
  • July 28th, 2025
 
Juan Carlos Colado sometime during the interview
Juan Carlos Colado sometime during the interview

The full-time university professor of the Universitat de València Juan Carlos Colado Sánchez, icon in physical exercise in special population, has talked about the importance of exercising in older people and how benefitial is to maintain a correctly prescribed programme to improve your health. Colado has participated in the programme about mental health, well-being and life-quality ‘Ágora’, hosted by the cardiologist and scientific disseminator José Abellán Huerta, known as @doctorabellan.

During the interview, the professor Colado shared key knowledge about how well prescribed movement can become a true medicine for elder people. With an accessible but rigorous language, he tackled topics such as active longevity, the importance of adapted strength exercises, and the urgent necessity of moving science to common practice.

“The problem is not getting old, but doing so loosing autonomy. And that can be prevented with something so simple —and so powerful— as is good movement, with criteria”, affirmed Colado during the conversation.

The interview is now available in YouTube and it’s generating a notorious interest. It can be entirely seen here.

José Abellán is known for his disseminative work in topics of cardiovascular health and he keeps a remarkable presence in social media and in some communication media. The programme of interviews ‘Ágora’ is a podcast and platform where health, nutrition, exercise and lifestyle content is disseminated. The programme offers accesible and useful information so people can take care entirely of their health. It can be found in many platforms and social media such as SpotifyInstagram or YouTube, among others.

The intervention of the professor Colado in the programme offers a hopeful and scientific perspective on ageing, underlining the transformative role of physical exercise in the improvement of physical, emotional and cognitive health in the elder population.