How Exercise Affects Your Immune System
How Exercise Affects Your Immune System
so today we’re gonna talk about what exercise can do to your immune system if you’re doing regular consistent exercise you can greatly enhance your immune system number one you’ll have a heightened immune surveillance now what does that mean well on the internal part of your body you have a barrier it’s all the internal skin and the size of that surface area would be about four hundred square meters the size of two tennis courts and so you have immune cells they’re called phagocytes that are guards that do surveillance and they are constantly looking for invaders pathogens to actually come across the barrier to attack them and eat them so exercise will enhance your phagocyte protection and your defense mechanism number two it’ll increase lymph circulation what is the lymphatic system well you have a circulatory system where blood is traveling through your arteries and then it goes down into these small little capillaries where the blood then can cross into your tissues and it forms lymph so the lymph system is like your backup system to the circulatory system then it goes all through the body through your lymph system where then it dumps back into the circulatory system so your lymph system is a backup to your circulatory system as well as a place to consolidate immune reactions to keep the immune reactions out of certain organs and tissues in a place where your immune system can then fight it more effectively the problem with the lymph system is it doesn’t have a pump exercise will increase the lymph flow through your body number three exercise delays the negative effect of aging on your immune system so the more exercise you do the younger you’re going to be because what you have to realize is that as you age your immune system gets weaker and weaker and weaker in fact the thymus gland which is on top of the heart which does all the training for the t-cells literally shrinks down to nothing when you become 80 years old number four can enhance the immune defense mechanisms as well as how fast your immune system responds to infection and number five and I think this is probably the most important thing is exercise can reduce mental stress and mental stress probably has the biggest influence on weakening your immune system making you more susceptible to getting an infection when you do exercise in the correct way you can really lower the stress the trick with exercise is to exercise in a way so as not to activate too much cortisol and really to do that you just have to make sure you don’t over train and you get enough sleep the healthier you are and the more recovery you have the less you have to worry about this so certain people can do ultra marathons and actually not even have that phase their immune system but other people that have higher levels of cortisol which by the way suppresses the immune system they can get sick even when they try to exercise a little bit.
How Exercise Affects Your Immune System
For most people doing regular consistent exercise is extremely beneficial to your immune system thanks for watching we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering on keto absolutely not Karen and it’s an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out I think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it’s just so easy to be keto but is it simple it’s super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it
How Exercise Affects Your Immune System
