Las year the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called exercise a "miracle cure". It is hard to think of it in that way when we are bombarded by marketing for the latest drugs and procedures, but none of these compares to the overall benefit of exercise. There are now a multitude of randomized controlled trials showing that exercise can help many medical conditions as well or better than drug therapy.
Unfortunately many people get caught up in the hype of the current trendy exercise fads that promote suffering during exercise. The amount needed to produce large benefits would surprise many people...just getting the heart rate up to 100-140 bpm ( brisk walk or riding a bike at less than 10 mph for most people) 30 minutes a day 5 days a week..
What is keeping you from getting started or continuing with an exercise program?

Closest Thing to a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise

A SAFER STRATEGY THAN OPIOIDS

A Safer Strategy Than Opiods (Narcotics) is the name of a new white paper from the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress. 
The Unites States has awakened on every level to the crushing impact of the opioid use/abuse epidemic. 
Since 2009 more than 165,000 Americans (3 times the number that died in the 20 years of the Vietman war) have died from prescription narcotic drugs. Calls have come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for a shift away from opioid use toward non-pharmacologic
approaches to address chronic pain.
An important non-pharmacologic approach in helping to solve this crisis is chiropractic care.

A SAFER STRATEGY THAN OPIOIDS

Prescripton medications now kill more Americans than all the illegal drugs combined! Most of these medications are the opioid (narcotic) class such as Vicodin, Tylenol 3, Narco, Oxycontin, and Oxycodone. Many people take these for back pain. These drugs can be very effective for acute pain such as post-surgical pain and pain from cancer, but studies show that they are not very effective for most chronic conditions including chronic low back pain.
JAMA Internal Medicine recently published a pooled study of 20 high quality randomized trials and found that the drugs relieved pain slightly, but the effects were not clinically significant, and the medicines did little to improve disability. The effectiveness was similar to that achieved by NSAID's such as aspirin.
Why do you think so many medical providers continue to prescribe these dangerous ineffective drugs instead of referring patients to much safer treatments done by chiropractors and PT's?

Opioids Narcotics Often Ineffective for Low Back Pain