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Aerobic exercise triggers muscles to secrete proteins called myokines, and myokines help to suppress cancer growth in two ways: directly and immunologically.  Australian exercise biologists studied this phenomenon both clinically in 10 prostate cancer parents and in the lab as they studied the growth of a prostate cancer cell line in tissue culture

 

The cancer patients participated in a 12 week exercise program. Blood samples were collected from each patient before the initiation of exercise and as the program progressed.  The cells and serum from these blood samples were applied directly to the prostate cells, and the myokine-containing blood gathered during active training slowed the growth of the prostate cancer cells.  The myokines in that blood also triggered T killer lymphocyte activity, and these activated white cells finished off the already weakened cancer cells.

 

The take home: working out at the gym rather than laying around in bed will help you knock out cancer.

 

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/9000/Myokine_Expression_and_Tumor_suppressive_Effect_of.95946.aspx

 

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