Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
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Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#2Makes sense.
Metabolic processes and immune pathways are closely interlinked together (such as through the mTOR pathway).
Activate mTOR and you get the signal for T cells to proliferate as well as muscle growth, especially in the context of hypertrophy.
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#3Surprise twist: it's lymphoma
Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#4Diet, exercise, enough sleep, and a good social support structure are pretty much the keys to good health in general.
The fact that we have so many health issues in western society are because its so easy to neglect these things.
Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#5Surprise twist: it's lymphoma
And breast cancer
Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#6Improving the odds is a great idea. But it's naive to think these are cures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox was in better shape than most people despite having lost a leg to cancer. He died age 22.
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#7bioscience phd student. Why is this interesting?
Tl;dr from the article, they used flow cytometry to quantify different cell populations in the blood, and noted that the proportion of CD8+ T cells (cytotoxic, the kind of immune cells that recognize and kill cancer cells, among other things) increases after exercise and returns to baseline 30 min later.
Claiming that this supports the idea that cancer patients could benefit* from exercise is a pretty big overstep of scientific inference.
* = in the immune response to their cancer
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#8It would be nice if we could find what triggers the body's improved condition when doing exercise, and trigger it maximally without having to do hours of repetitive nonsense.
It's fine if you like to do it, but a lot of us obviously don't. I wonder how the progress is going in this sphere.
Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#9Improving the odds is a great idea. But it's naive to think these are cures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox was in better shape than most people despite having lost a leg to cancer. He died age 22.
Little weird to reply with a specific incident. I didn’t see anywhere this was broadcasted as a cure.
Re: Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
#10Diet, exercise, enough sleep, and a good social support structure are pretty much the keys to good health in general. The fact that we have so many health issues in western society are because its so easy to neglect these things.
These are luxuries, not mandatories. That's why many people don't get them. They can't. I absolutely can't.