s3/e12 Running & Your Immune System with Dr. Yasmin Mohseni, PhD (@doctor.yas_)

The Running Explained Podcast

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Sports, Running

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Learn about your IMMUNE SYSTEM and how endurance running affects it! Immunologist Dr. Yasmin Mohseni, PhD, joins the show this week to talk about running and our immune systems, including...

The basics of what our immune system is and what it does
Is exercise good for our immune system? Why?
What's going on when we feel like we're "getting sick" after a very hard run or a very hard race; are we actually getting sick?
ARE we more likely to get sick after a hard workout or race (the "open window" hypothesis)?
"Immune-boosting" things & what we can actually do
Stress & the immune system
Running when sick/COVID & the recovery timeline
and more!

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Yasmin Mohseni, PhD, an immunologist specializing in the research and clinical translation of immunotherapies, develops strategies to produce cell and gene therapy products. Her groundbreaking work focuses on engineering the immune system that applies to cancer, autoimmunity, and solid organ transplant rejection. Her most recent work involves developing and manufacturing immunotherapy for different cancers. On Instagram and TikTok, she has found purpose in sharing and explaining the science of immunology and the latest research to the everyday person!

https://www.instagram.com/doctor.yas_

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker.
0:07.3	When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers.
0:14.2	And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know.
0:18.7	If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time,
0:21.1	there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. Hey everyone, welcome to
0:27.4	episode 12 of season three of the Running Explained podcast. I am super excited to introduce this week's
0:33.4	guest immunologist Dr. Yasmin Moseni and she is here today to talk to us about our immune
0:40.1	systems and endurance exercise and how it all fits together. So we touched on a couple different
0:46.5	things in this conversation, going through the basics of what our immune system is and does,
0:52.1	talking about the myth, is it a myth of if hard exercise is makes it
0:57.8	more likely that you're going to get sick in that immediate window after something like a really
1:01.8	hard workout or a race. What an immune response is versus when your body is actually fighting
1:07.0	something off. We talk about if you should exercise when you're sick. And we do talk a bit
1:12.3	about the difference between COVID-related recovery and regular illness recovery. Now, this is not an
1:17.5	episode where we dwell on that specifically, but it is a topic that we do touch on. So I hope you
1:22.8	find this useful. Please enjoy. Dr. Yasmin Moseni, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here.
1:29.2	Thanks so much for asking me to be on. So we are talking about running endurance athletics and
1:35.4	the immune system today. You are an immunologist. Tell us a bit about your background and how you
1:41.2	decided to become an immunologist. Yes. So I'm not sure people can tell
1:48.8	from my accent, but I am actually a born and bred Londoner. So my background is I went to
1:55.1	university to do biochemistry initially and took a couple of immunology modules and found the whole topic really interesting.
2:03.9	It seemed to be one of the only systems where each cell kind of needs to work together,
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