The compelling link between physical activity and the body's defense system

Publication date: Available online 16 November 2018Source: Journal of Sport and Health ScienceAuthor(s): David C. Nieman, Laurel M. WentzAbstractThis review summarizes research discoveries within four areas of exercise immunology that have received the most attention from investigators: 1) acute and chronic effects of exercise on the immune system, 2) clinical benefits of the exercise-immune relationship, 3) nutritional influences on the immune response to exercise, and 4) the effect of exercise on immunosenescence. These scientific discoveries can be organized into distinctive time periods: 1900–1980 which focused on exercise-induced changes in basic immune cell counts and function; 1980–1990 during which seminal papers were published with evidence that heavy exertion was associated w...

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