Aerobic Activity as Precision Cancer Prevention 🏃♀️🎯🧬
Dr RR Baliga's "Got Knowledge Doc" Podkast
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🏃♀️ Exercise is not lifestyle advice—it's cancer biology.
A landmark analysis of 443,768 adults from the UK Biobank and NHANES shows that regular aerobic physical activity (≈117–500 min/week) is associated with:
• 21% lower risk of inflammation-related cancers
• 34% lower all-cancer mortality
Mechanistically, exercise:
🔬 Reduces chronic low-grade inflammation
🧬 Reverses immunosenescence (↓ Mki67⁺ immune cells)
🛡️ Expands functional innate and adaptive immunity
Strikingly, the mortality benefit rivals—or exceeds—that of many modern anticancer therapies.
📖 Jin et al., Cell Reports Medicine, 2025
In the era of sedentary epidemics, movement may be our most scalable precision therapy.
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