Exercise is the Best Medicine for COVID-19: Facts Everyone Should Know in 2023

High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS

Mike Mutzel

Fasting, Nutrition, Autophagy, Ketogenic, Keto, Health & Fitness, Ketodiet, Medicine

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

New research shows exercise is one of the most important tools for fighting off respiratory infections, including COVID-19. Here's a summary of the most recent data...

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1. Torres, G., Constantinou, D., Gradidge, P., Patel, D. & Patricios, J. Exercise is the Most Important Medicine for COVID-19. Curr. Sports Med. Rep. 22, 284–289 (2023).

2. Jimeno-Almazán, A. et al. Effects of a concurrent training, respiratory muscle exercise, and self-management recommendations on recovery from post-COVID-19 conditions: the RECOVE trial. J. Appl. Physiol. 134, 95–104 (2023).

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00:00 Exercise is the most important medicine for COVID19.

02:10 Exercise reduces the severity of upper respiratory tract infections.

02:30 Exercise reduces odds of contracting COVID, being hospitalized, being in the ICU, and risk of death.

05:10 Exercise reduces inflammation.

07:30 Autophagy and mitophagy occur with every exercise session, optimizing energy production.

09:20 Exercise prevents the accumulation of exhausted T cells.

10:45 Exercise releases myokines that help the thymus gland release T cells.

11:00 T cells and B cells are mobilized in the blood by increased catecholamines during exercise, and likely cold exposure.

11:20 Natural killer cells and viral specific T cells occur with each exercise session.

12:00 Aerobic exercise mobilizes T lymphocytes, T cells, and effector cells.

13:00 Exercise exerts anti-inflammatory effects within the heart.

13:50 Stem cells from muscle are released during intense exercise.

14:35 Your frontline mucosal defense is impacted by exercise.

15:30 Myokines from exercise increase BDNF.

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0:00.0	Exercise is the most important medicine for COVID-19.
0:02.8	These are not my words, these are not my opinions.
0:04.5	This is the title of a recently published peer-reviewed
0:07.2	academic article in a high impact journal known as exercise
0:10.3	and sports medicine.
0:11.5	I want to share through the details and the findings
0:13.4	and some of the key takeaways from this very important
0:15.9	and I think interesting article to read
0:18.0	and share with your friends and family.
0:19.2	You know, the reason why we've talked so much about COVID
0:21.0	over the past several years.
0:22.0	Now, we're almost going on four years,
0:23.6	which is totally crazy.
0:24.6	Well, I shared a lot of interesting research studies
0:27.9	epidemiological studies showing that exercise
0:30.1	and being outdoors and healthy living
0:32.6	improves immune system function,
0:34.0	decreasing risk for severe infection in January of 2020.
0:37.5	And I got so much blowback over on Instagram.
0:39.3	People said, how could exercise help prevent
0:42.4	severe infection from this novel virus?
0:44.4	Well, it turns out, now almost four years later,
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