When did you start noticing a difference?

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    I don’t think you really get significantly less effective at fighting off viral infections until you get really old and start collecting co-morbidities.

    If you’re more “active” as in socialising more, you’ll catch more viruses.

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        9 days ago

        Physical exercise doesn’t make your body more effective at fighting viruses. That’s covid-era anti-vax meme level reasoning.

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          9 days ago

          To what page of search results do I have to skip to read something backing this claim of yours? Because frankly I got bored after reading 10 abstracts from the first page and no luck finding anything, but plenty of conclusions stating the opposite, such as:

          Higher level of habitual physical activity is associated with a 31% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.69, 95% CI 0.61–0.78, 6 studies, N = 557,487 individuals) of community-acquired infectious disease and 37% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.64, 95% CI 0.59–0.70, 4 studies, N = 422,813 individuals) of infectious disease mortality.