Why Does Exercise Guard Against Cancer? Inflammation May Play a Role
Gretchen Reynolds of The New York Times covers a recent study in which researchers observed male colon cancer survivors and their blood cytokine levels during a month of high-intensity interval exercise. Reynolds writes: “In effect, something about the blood drawn immediately after the workout was slowing the growth of cancer cells. The researchers think they may have identified that something in subsequent analyses of the men’s blood. They found a large increase in molecules involved in inflammation immediately after exercise. Inflammation can slow cell growth and reproduction. So a transitory increase in inflammatory markers after exercise might be helping to jam the proliferation of tumor cells.”
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SUNDAY
GO TO FEATURED DAILY: MAY 05, 2019190505
WORKOUT OF THE DAY
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Can you walk 400 meters carrying 50-lb. dumbbells (♀ 35-lb.)?
A) If not, how far can you go before setting them down?
B) What are the heaviest dumbbells you can carry for 400 meters?
A $1,000 prize will be awarded for the heaviest successful 400-m carry (one for men and one for women). Do it on a track, upload video to YouTube, and post a link to 190505 comments by midnight, Sunday, May 12.
After the carry, practice controlled descents from a handstand for 10 minutes.
Post distance completed for A and load used for B to comments.
THE DUMBBELL FARMERS CARRY
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ACUTE HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL EXERCISE REDUCES COLON CANCER CELL GROWTH
Comments Acute high intensity interval exercise reduces colon cancer cell growth0
In this February 2019 study, researchers investigated exercise’s known effect on mortality rates for cancer survivors by observing male colon cancer survivors’ blood cytokine levels during a month of high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE). Their data suggest exercise temporarily increases levels of blood inflammatory markers, and these increases may suppress tumor growth.
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SATURDAY
GO TO FEATURED DAILY: MAY 04, 2019190504
WORKOUT OF THE DAY
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Rest Day
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Symphony no. 2 – Dos Orixás: Suíte by Almeida Prado

CROSSFIT CROWNS 236 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
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The 2019 Open began Feb. 21, spanning five weeks and featuring five tests of fitness. The Open is the single largest participatory test of fitness on the planet and is open to anyone with garage gym equipment and a will to pursue a challenge. Individuals from all cultures and walks of life unite in competition, drawn to the universality of the CrossFit methodology. It begins in the 15,000 CrossFit affiliates around the world and ends in a celebration of those individuals and communities at the CrossFit Games.
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FRIDAY
GO TO FEATURED DAILY: MAY 03, 2019190503
WORKOUT OF THE DAY
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4 rounds for time of:
21 bench presses
15 pull-ups
400-m run
♀ 95 lb. ♂ 135 lb.
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The Hyponatremia of Exercise, Part 80
In Part 8 of the series, Professor Tim Noakes outlines key moments in the development of hydration science between 1983 and the early 2000s. He discusses the first known example of exercise-associated hyponatremic encephalopathy and explains why misconceptions about how the human body regulates temperature and blood sodium concentrations during exercise led to the mismanagement of that case and many others. He notes that despite scientific discoveries regarding the causes and optimal treatment of EAHE, incidences of the condition were increasing in the U.S. military and among U.S. marathon runners. He proposes several explanations for this occurrence, first among them the promotion of the Zero-Percent Dehydration and Water as a Tactical Weapon Doctrines. What we have learned, he explains in conclusion, is that when scientific truth is “pitted against the power of modern marketing,” that truth “will not be heard.”