Exercise

Momine

New study proves one mechanism of how exercise helps against cancer:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/251415.php

"A team of experts, led by Laura Bilek, from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, had a group of 16 cancer survivors participate in a twelve week exercise program for their study. The T cells in the volunteers' blood was examined before the exercise course, and after it was completed.

Analysis showed that a large portion of the immune cells changed from a senescent form to a naïve form. This means that they went from a form that is not as efficient in fighting against cancer to a form that is prepared to protect against disease and infections." 

josgarvin

An individual who does a regular exercise is somehow healthier and does not get sick easily than who does not. Doing exercise is not a cure for cancer but it can somehow help us not to have any health problem, our body needs to move, we need to strengthen our immune system and also, we should avoid unhealthy foods and bad habits like smoking and drinking alcohol.

1Athena1

I am in a strange pos8itio9n in regard to exercise. I do believe it may lessen our chances of recurrence. However, due to unfairly (me, whining away...) early perimenopausal symptoms, I have had to stop exercising for a while. So now I am trying to get my obgyn to give me HRT despite the so-called risk so that I can get back to a normal life - that includes being able to exercise and recover from injury.

HLB

Athena, I wouldd look into the bio-indenticles instead of hrt. What are the symptoms that prevent you from exercise? I have read that a lot of people have joint pains from AIs and if they just work through it the ecercise makes it feel better. Also, I have been taking curcumin and boswellia, which are both natural anti inflammatories and I think that might be helping me not to have joint pains on the letrozole. I went into early meno with the very first chemo tx I had and had really bad hot flashes but that seems to be the only symptom I ever had from it. I take effexor for that and maybe that is why I never got moody or anything like that.