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We exist to connect the dots across health disciplines, and to share information that gives you the agency to change the trajectory of your own health journey - wherever you are at. The health industry is siloed, confusing and means we're often in the back seat, with little to no belief in our autonomy to improve our health status. We're here to change that and to highlight the ways that you can too.
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What if your muscles could talk to your organs and maybe even prevent cancer? Here, Ben sits down with world-renowned exercise scientist Professor Mark Febbraio to dismantle the science behind myokines - molecules released by muscle that signal throughout the body.
Insights covered in this episode:
🧪 Myokines and inter-organ communication
🦠Exercise’s role in cancer prevention
🧬 Inflammation, cytokines & what IL-6 does
🧠The cognitive power of exercise & BDNF
🏋️‍♂️ What type of training protects best and how much is too much
💉 Why we don’t understand GLP-1 side effects yet
🧫 The future of exercise mimetics & blood-based therapies
🧠Why “we don’t know” might be science’s most honest answer
From interleukin-6’s double life to how exercise blood can fight tumours, this one’s a digestible dive into how movement truly is medicine.
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