Hi friends,
I wanted to share with you a few new things I found in my reading this week.
1. Exercise may help reduce the effects of acute respiratory failure in Covid patients:
“Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EcSOD) is an antioxidant that hunts down harmful free radicals, protecting our tissues and helping to prevent disease. Our muscles naturally make EcSOD, secreting it into the circulation to allow binding to other vital organs, …. its production is enhanced by cardiovascular exercise.”
https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2020/04/15/covid-19-exercise-may-help-prevent-deadly-complication/
“….endurance exercise promotes production of an antioxidant called extracellular superoxide dismutase (EcSOD) that breaks down the free radical superoxide outside of the cells.”
from https://theconversation.com/exercise-may-help-reduce-risk-of-deadly-covid-19-complication-ards-136922
Can exercise really help prevent Covid-19?
2. Exercise can boost the body’s response to a vaccine to make it more effective:
“Researchers had volunteers head out for a moderately paced 90-minute jog or bike ride 15 minutes after receiving their flu shot. Other volunteers sat quietly for 90 minutes after their shot. Then the researchers checked for blood levels of influenza antibodies a month later, Those volunteers who had exercised after being inoculated, it turned out, exhibited “nearly double the antibody response” of the sedentary group… They also had higher blood levels of certain immune system cells that help the body fight off infection.”
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/how-exercise-can-boost-the-flu-shots-potency/
“The researchers speculate that the athletes’ immune systems had been strengthened and fine-tuned by the daily physical demands and damages of training, allowing them to respond so effectively to the vaccine.”
from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/well/move/exercise-may-boost-your-vaccine-response.html
“….a bout of exercise can bring about profound changes in the immune system, such as increasing circulating cell numbers, with specific increases in certain subsets, and the release of immune messenger proteins by working muscle cells themselves.”
from https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2013/04/23/flu-shots-boosted-by-exercise.html
Here’s some information on Exercise Immunology
Keep reading, keep learning, keep moving!
Holly
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