Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I mean, it's very scary.

And so I wonder also just if there's almost a placebo effect.

A placebo effect is a real biological phenomenon, as you know.

I mean, changes in immune system, dopamine, a lot of things are happening when you have a positive outlook, when you feel like you have control of something.

And so you almost wonder if that spills over to some of the psychological effects helping the anti-cancer effects as well.

Like there's probably some crossover there.

Well, it sounds to me like the bottom line is, I mean,

at every stage, exercise is something that people need to absolutely focus on for cancer prevention, for cancer treatment, and continuing treatment.

So, you know, it not only is helping you get through the treatment, perhaps, you know, even having beneficial outcomes, you know, with reducing mortality risk, reducing cancer recurrence, but that psychological, let's say you

okay, you get through the treatment, you got rid of the cancer, whew, okay, it's gone.

And some people might think, okay, end, end there, I'm done.

But the reality is then you do have to keep going back for these screenings.

You do have to worry about a few of those tumor cells that escaped and maybe are gonna continue growing at the tumor site or somewhere else.

And so having exercise as a part of your daily routine is going to make everything easier

And it's going to improve the chances that you're not going to have cancer recurrence.

So there's every reason to exercise and there's every reason to be motivated to exercise.

Before we move on to just a couple of rapid fire questions, is there anything that we didn't cover perhaps that might be important to discuss?

Do you have any idea what percentage of people that are diagnosed with cancer actually do use exercise in conjunction with their treatment?

Well, how do they get that support?

And also, what about people that are sedentary before a diagnosis who aren't even used to working out or exercising?