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The answer is no; it decreases it. My personal experiences match the findings of these studies. My diet and supplement use is much better during heavy training
by bombs 17y ago
The answer is no; it decreases it.
My personal experiences match the findings of these studies. My diet and supplement use is much better during heavy training and exercise periods, so I'm hoping that that will offset it.
- diN0bot 17y agoer, what about the second experiment, where light exercise reduced infection to 12% versus 50% for no exercise and 70% for 5x as much exercise? that seems to suggest that doing a little bit of work keeps the body healthy. furthermore, the study doesn't say what the mice did before the experiement. perhaps the mice were used to 20-30 minutes of exercise a day, and it is change that is most damaging. what one mice considers exhausting, another mouse might find boring. edit: the article mentions "(Although definitions of intense exercise vary among researchers, most define it as a workout or race of an hour or more during which your heart rate and respiration soar and you feel as if you are working hard.)"
- draven 17y ago"running leisurely for 20-30mn" is not hard work, so I guess you won't have a hard time recovering from it, if at all. OTOH a real challenging workout requires a recovery period, since it causes some "damage". Looks like the body has trouble fighting off a disease while recovering from hard work. But no physical activity at all has a debilitating effect. It makes sense. In my experience I never had trouble fighting a disease when I work out hard; I guess it has something to do with a better diet and better sleep quality.
- scotth 17y agoNot really an easy thing to judge on a personal level, because you weren't simultaneously trying the other approach of light (or no) exercise.
- draven 17y agoWhen an injury or real life makes it next to impossible to train, I usually get sick more often. But you're right, I'm speaking only of my own experience.
- learnalist 17y agoNot going to touch on the finer points of the atheltisim of the mice. As your right it would clearly alter the results. But I do have a question. What is the ratio of 30 minutes of exercise for a mouse compared to a human. As I would be highly surprised if its 1 to 1. This article reinforces the need to listen to your body and react accordingly. On a side note for those looking for ideas. Based on the example in the article... I would happily volunteer to take a saliva test before running and after. To help build up the data available for the test. A website to cater for "crowd sourced data" scientific discovery would be an amazing site. ( clearly there would be pitfalls, im just throwing it out there )
- mediaman 17y agopatientslikeme.com is doing crowdsourced "scientific discovery." I use quotes because of the obvious difficulties in having proper scientific procedures in crowdsourced efforts, but nevertheless I think it's useful.