Muscles, Cancer & the Future of Exercise Medicine | Professor Mark Febbraio
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Degrees of Health · Benjamin Hopkins
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Show Notes
What if your muscles could talk to your organs and maybe even prevent cancer? Here, Ben sits down with world-renowned exercise scientist Professor Mark Febbraio to dismantle the science behind myokines - molecules released by muscle that signal throughout the body.
Insights covered in this episode:
🧪 Myokines and inter-organ communication
🦠 Exercise’s role in cancer prevention
🧬 Inflammation, cytokines & what IL-6 does
🧠 The cognitive power of exercise & BDNF
🏋️♂️ What type of training protects best and how much is too much
💉 Why we don’t understand GLP-1 side effects yet
🧫 The future of exercise mimetics & blood-based therapies
🧠 Why “we don’t know” might be science’s most honest answer
From interleukin-6’s double life to how exercise blood can fight tumours, this one’s a digestible dive into how movement truly is medicine.
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