This latest news comes from The Economist – Feb. 27 http://econ.st/1QdaTJQ. Aerobic exercise like
running has long been seen as a cancer preventive, as well as way to forestall
cancer’s return after treatment.
Now, this new study says it all comes down to adrenalin, or what
the test tube folks call epinephrine.
So take a medicinal form of epinephrine and get the benefits
of running for your life. Good idea, right? Well, yes. And the scientists in a
study in the journal Cell Metabolism came up with a second chemical factor
that gets stirred up when you kick up a sweat on a run: interleukin-6.
So let’s get these drugs into production: Epinephrine and
interleukin-6 to attack cancer tumors. Don’t diminish the role of running in a
life, though. Put it this way: If you run for your life, you can do so without
spending an arm and a leg on new drugs (in the US, anyway; drugs like these
wouldn’t come to market at anything less than $100 a pill – that is, unless
Bernie Sanders were to win the presidency!)
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