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Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

Daril wrote: post #21

If you are interested in this topic (inflammation prevention and reduction), take a look at the Wim Hof method (the Iceman). In its simplest form, it consists of two simple techniques: cold exposure and deep breathing with hyper-oxygenation. Anyone can do it, whatever their age or physical condition.

In general, the best thing about this is that it is unlikely to hurt you.

It is unlikely to help you, either, of course. At best, this is in the "studies suggest" but there also isn't anything robust to link it to, well, anything.

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

zer8k wrote: post #25
ck2 wrote: post #3

Exercise helps with inflammation the same way low-dose naltrexone helps with inflammation. They modulate opioid receptors, increase endorphins and drive down interleukin cytokines. Unfortunately neither actually cure the source of the inflammation, disease etc. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=naltrexone+inflammation... https://google.com/search?q=naltrexone+inflammation+cytokine...

There are plenty of cases for exercise curing disease. Metabolic syndrome is basically cured exclusively through diet and exercise until it becomes too late to stop. Physical therapy is exercise and certainly that is curative. Exercise alone took my cholesterol panel from mildly elevated to absolutely normal, lowered my blood sugar, and improved many inflammatory markers. I cannot say the same for naltrexone. Bonus,…

... in a post-scarcity society...

So, a world that doesn't exist?

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

raverbashing wrote: post #16
moltar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this happen with any carbs? There’s a strong link with fructose and gout.

While it seems there might be an association, blaming fructose for gout seems just to be a scapegoat for a crappy diet that replaces processed meats with loads of HFCS overall

You can eat a lot of fish and fruit and those things can contribute to gout.

Fructose simply isn't the only thing that contributes: Being male, eating some meat, fish, and seafood, being overweight, and so on can contribute. It isn't really processed meats that do it, but certain types of meat. Gout used to be a disease of the rich - who were the folks that were likely to eat the foods that lead to it (and have an amount of other contributors).

My brother got gout in high school: He wasn't eating too badly, was a healthy weight, but probably had a "rich" diet and was male.

Edited to add link: https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/gout.html#causes

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by [deleted] »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #32
zer8k wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of cases for exercise curing disease. Metabolic syndrome is basically cured exclusively through diet and exercise until it becomes too late to stop. Physical therapy is exercise and certainly that is curative. Exercise alone took my cholesterol panel from mildly elevated to absolutely normal, lowered my blood sugar, and improved many inflammatory markers. I cannot say the same for naltrexone. Bonus,…

... in a post-scarcity society... So, a world that doesn't exist?

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Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by hinkley »

Felotooto wrote: post #26
Jacky4Chan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem to have very low reading comprehension, nowhere did I say low-dose naltrexone cures cancer. There is a youtube video about someone whose cancer was cured using low-dose naltrexone.

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Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by clumsysmurf »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #31
Daril wrote: post #21

If you are interested in this topic (inflammation prevention and reduction), take a look at the Wim Hof method (the Iceman). In its simplest form, it consists of two simple techniques: cold exposure and deep breathing with hyper-oxygenation. Anyone can do it, whatever their age or physical condition.

In general, the best thing about this is that it is unlikely to hurt you. It is unlikely to help you, either, of course. At best, this is in the "studies suggest" but there also isn't anything robust to link it to, well, anything.

> unlikely to hurt you

Cold causes vasoconstriction, leading to increase in arterial blood pressure. Might not be good for some people.

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by darkclouds »

No mention of the adrenal glands which sit on top of the kidneys, passively diffusing 80+ hormones through the pumping of the kidneys and movement experienced from exercise into the blood stream, some of which that last a fraction of a second, where adrenaline helps to shut off part of the immune system.

So is this study, observing the effects of the adrenal glands and subsequently released hormones or not?

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by timeon »

winrid wrote: post #8

It also seems like eating carbs is terrible for inflammation. If I go slightly over normal carb intake my knee/foot will hurt. I have screws in there and I bet it's extra sensitive to inflammation.

Similar experience with higher intake of protein.

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by simmerup »

timeon wrote: post #38
winrid wrote: post #8

It also seems like eating carbs is terrible for inflammation. If I go slightly over normal carb intake my knee/foot will hurt. I have screws in there and I bet it's extra sensitive to inflammation.

Similar experience with higher intake of protein.

Makes sense as excess protein is converted to glucose by the body (same as carbs)

Re: New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

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Post by simmerup »

zer8k wrote: post #27
moltar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this happen with any carbs? There’s a strong link with fructose and gout.

Fructose is also highly correlated with NAFLD and other liver diseases. It's probably one of the worst things you can put in your body.

In high quantities from stuff like table sugar anyway. The 5 grams ~ you get from a portion of fruit probably isn't such a big deal
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