Badminton's health benefits go well beyond burning calories: it strengthens your heart, sharpens reflexes and balance, builds bone and leg strength, lifts mood, and — through its social, game-based nature — keeps people exercising for decades. This guide gathers the evidence-backed benefits, including the study linking racquet sports to a 47% lower risk of early death and the Copenhagen data tying badminton to longer life expectancy, with the honest caveats on what's proven versus promising.
