TreadMill Colds - The Exercise Connection
Many people who exercise frequently complain of frequent colds or getting sick from too much time on the treadmill.
A new study out from the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports reports the problem is regulation of inflammation post exercise.
Treadmill runners prone to getting colds seem to have differences in cellular signaling mechanism that regulate mitigation of the inflammatory response.
The key solution here is simply getting hot. The more you sweat and hotter you get from exercise, the greater the inflammatory response.
Exercise induces key proteins known as heat shock proteins. The role of heat shock proteins are to reduce in inflammation. Heat shock proteins are also induced by illness. What many treadmill runners unknowingly induce by virtue of getting too hot during exercise is the same response you would have to being ill.
Rule of Thumb: Don’t get so hot while on the treadmill to avoid getting sick.
Reference:
Cytokine Responses to Treadmill Running in Healthy and Illness-Prone Athletes.
CLINICAL SCIENCES
COX, AMANDA JULIE 1,2; PYNE, DAVID BRUCE 1,3; SAUNDERS, PHILO URSON 1; CALLISTER, ROBIN 2; GLEESON, MAREE 2
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