Dr. Martin Picard

And then you become apathetic.

You become cold.

You shrink your muscles.

And those are all good energy saving, energy conservation strategies to a viral infection, right?

The same thing seems to happen slowly as you age.

If you have those cells that are sending those signals.

But if you exercise and if you don't eat too much and once in a while you feel hungry, maybe intermittent fasting or...

that you actually now can get rid of those signals of like energetic stress and you can make the organism more efficient.

I think a significant benefit to exercise is improving efficiency.

And then you can fight off inflammation.

Really what this is, is you're bringing the organism's energy resistance, the cells that are struggling, you're kind of normalizing them.

And then you don't feel like you're running out of energy.

So I think it's a perception problem.

So-

Inflammation is a reframe that to me completely changed my perspective on what inflammation is.

Inflammation is an energetic signal.

If there are cytokines in your blood, it means somewhere in your body, and that's not true of like all cytokines, but the major cytokines that we think about like IL-6, interleukin-6, it's secreted by muscles, not during the exercise.

Like you're doing your run, right?

Like I'd say you run intensely for an hour or two hours.

IL-6 doesn't increase.