Endurance training protects cells from inflammation

Serious diseases such as cancer and AIDS, trauma from injury or accident, or sepsis (whole-body response to infection) result in a rapid decrease in muscle mass caused by chemicals such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) that promote inflammation. TNF slows protein synthesis and has also been linked to some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's, cancer, depression and inflammatory bowel disease. Health should be supported.

According to a study conducted with mice by scientists from Belgium, endurance training could protect the body from TNF. The scientists compared the effects of TNF injections in trained and untrained mice. The effects of TNF were lower in the endurance-trained mice.

Endurance training could protect the body from the effects of body-wide inflammation triggered by TNF.

(Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 48: 227 - 234, 2016)