Dr. Rhonda Patrick

What kind of exercise prepares people the most for a cancer treatment that they're going to undergo?

I mean, strength training, resistance training is obviously – you do get your heart rate up.

It's not the same as aerobic exercise or vigorous intensity, high-intensity exercise.

But you're building muscle mass.

You're building muscle strength.

Very, very important for aging.

Yeah.

Where does the aerobic versus like resistance training come into play in terms of preparing someone for a cancer diagnosis?

Got it.

Yeah, I would imagine also if there would be some evidence looking at resistance training added on to that, it would be beneficial because, you know, post-surgery in particular, you're less mobile after, right?

And, you know, so you end up losing muscle mass and it's really hard to gain that muscle mass back after, at least when you're older, after an event like that.

Wow.

Does resistance training counter cancer cacaxia?

Because I know that's a little bit of a different mechanism.

Is that an inflammatory-driven mechanism that's breaking down muscle?

Yeah, that's a really good point.

I mean, on the prevention stage, it would be you have to be incorporating regular resistance training, strength training into your workout routine because you want to have, you want to basically build up that muscle reserve that you have more to pull from if a terrible thing like a cancer diagnosis occurs and cancer cachexia, I don't know exactly what drives it all, but if it kicks in, at least you have more muscle to start with, right?

Like that would be

Do people with obesity also have more muscle mass?

Are they just eating more calories, including from protein, which is a signal for muscle protein synthesis?