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TMHS 659: How Building Muscle & Boosting Fitness Impacts The Rest Of Your Life

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Insulin Resistance of Skeletal Muscle Is One of the Primary Defects of Cancer

Insulin resistance of skeletal muscle is one of the primary defects of, I don't want to say all, but nearly all the diseases that we're seeing. Heart disease, cancer, obesity, skeletal muscle needs to be our focus, as opposed to looking at the periphery, which is adiposity. Exercising skeletal muscle increases natural killer cells. It increases in interface with the immune system and with the inflammation in the body. And what we really need to do is how do we bridge the gap between fitness professionals and medical professionals?

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