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Exercise
Curiosity Killed the Rat
English - July 11, 2020 08:04 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBScience Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Exercise: one of the four acceptable reasons to leave the house during COVID-19 lockdowns. We know exercise is good for us, but what is actually happening inside the body? Specifically, what impact is it having on our immune system? Joined by immunologist Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Kate and Matt chat about exercise, and what working out might do to immune function. They also chat muscle memory; do our muscles actually remember their past strength, or is it all in our brains?If you loved what Catriona has to say you can find her on twitter (https://twitter.com/CatrionaNR), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nyuroscientist/), and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NtXSj9jH06SHNmsKhyfuQ). As always, you can follow Curiosity Killed the Rat on twitter (https://twitter.com/CuriosityRat), Insta (https://www.instagram.com/curiosityrat/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/curiosityrat/), and email in your listener questions to [email protected]:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.00648/full?fbclid=IwAR2dpuIYqeCqOoTzGQGNL4Qd5a4GvB1LBWbLScXYiLrPXz1qtB8eKQkVNt0https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20713720/https://www.pnas.org/content/107/34/15111https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20287-3https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01887/full