Exercițiile fizice pot salva vieți: Aflați cum pot reduce riscurile cancerului cu până la 37%!

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'Alcohol is a painkiller; I’d call it ''sports wine’', Leeds runner Allie Bailey, 42, says. The coach, speaker and podcaster has run in some of the most extreme places in the world. She was the first woman to run 100 miles across frozen Lake Khövsgöl in Mongolia and to run the full length of the Panama Canal. She has finished over 200 marathons and ultramarathons all over the world - remarkably while battling depression and alcoholism. Allie started drinking in her teens and never stopped. At university she would drink six pints of lager a day and then when she moved to London she spent a lot of time in pubs and bars. She would go missing on nights out, leading friends to call the police. She would pass out in taxi ranks, bus stations and at the end of Tube lines. She was chaotic and ended up in danger on many occasions. And Allie struggled; she self-harmed and made multiple attempts on her life. ‘Heaviness loomed. Everything was so hard. The depression was getting worse and I was trying to ignore it. I was drinking most of the time,’ she says. Then, when she landed a job in the music industry, the drinking spiralled. Her marriage ended and Allie stopped looking after herself. She remembers: ‘At one point, I didn’t eat a proper meal for three months, not because I had an eating disorder, but because I was too depressed to eat. I constantly felt sick and scared. I survived on cigarettes, bananas, ice pops, lager and the occasional packet of crisps.’ In her late twenties, Allie saw the doctor who suggested running. ‘I didn’t love it. But I did it whenever I felt so wretched I wanted to die and it stopped those feelings for a time.’ She found herself running faster and longer, entering marathons and then ultra-marathons. But her success meant she could deny her own addiction; she reasoned that she couldn’t be an alcoholic if she was running. She explains: ‘We are capable of a lot more than we think we are. Because I felt no pain, drinking and running really wasn’t a problem. I drank water on the runs and ate as I should. You’re not going too fast on ultras and I would often have a drink halfway round a race to take the edge off. ‘Often, I didn’t have a hangover because I was still drunk and I just topped up the levels with the bottle of wine stashed in my kit bag. ‘Functioning alcoholics are everywhere - how did George Best play all that football? I think people think if you’re an alcoholic you lay in bed all day doing nothing, can’t hold down a job or run - you can - you can live a pretty normal life. We are everywhere - you just choose not to see us - school gates, offices, everywhere. It’s when the drink is taken away it's a problem. I was actually a better runner when I was drinking because I didn’t feel pain. Allie finally managed to stop drinking two years ago at the age of 40, and she has been sober ever since. She has taken part in therapy and coaching and continues to work on herself, adding: ‘I stopped asking myself, when will it get easier, and started concentrating on the here and now. At the start of my recovery, I had to do this because I couldn’t see a future. Minute by minute, day by day, I dealt with it as it came, both about my mental health and my drinking. I didn’t realise I was learning to be in the moment, but I was. I try to do this every day> I’m not always successful, but I’m aiming for progress; not perfection.’ Featuring: Alison Bailey When: 27 May 2024 Credit: INSTARimages **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED PHOTOGRAPHER AND/OR SUPPLIER.**,Image: 877038985, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED PHOTOGRAPHER AND/OR SUPP, Model Release: no
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Exercițiile fizice: Soluția miraculoasă sau doar o altă iluzie? Descoperă ADEVĂRUL!

Dacă credeai că a face sport e doar o chestiune de estetică, uite că un studiu mega important, prezentat cu fast la Chicago de ASCO, sugerează că exercițiile fizice ar putea reduce riscurile corelate cancerului, dar hai să nu ne grăbim să ne bucurăm, pentru că totul pare prea frumos. Studiul ăsta ar fi arătat o reducere a riscului cu 37% la mortalitate și 28% la reapariția cancerului, iar asta e cu adevărat șocant!

Da, da, ai auzit bine, se zice că mișcarea ar fi mai eficientă decât cele mai scumpe medicamente, dar oare cât de mult putem să ne bazăm pe asta? E vorba despre 889 de pacienți din toată lumea, adică SUA, Marea Britanie, Australia, iar jumătate au avut program de exerciții cu antrenori personali, pe când cealaltă jumătate, vai, doar niște recomandări scrise, că nu mai putem să ne complicăm! Și după opt ani, bașca, cine a făcut sport a avut mai puține recidive, dar e clar că investiția în bunăstarea fizică e acum o prioritate nu?

Dar așteaptă un pic! Doctorița aia, Julie Gralow, a spus că exercițiile sunt ca un medicament dar fără toxine, dar oare chiar e așa? Asta o să schimbe modul în care oncologii tratează pacienții, sau pur și simplu ne duce cu zăhărelul? Se pare că pe lângă faptul că scade riscul de cancer, sportul ajută și la menținerea greutății, întărește sistemul imunitar și toate cele, dar cât de mult ține treaba asta?

Concluzia, sau mă rog, ce vor cercetătorii să audă, e că exercițiile ar trebui să fie parte din tratamentul post-cancer. Dacă e așa, de ce nu vedem asta implementată peste tot? Bineînțeles, medicii recomandă, cum e și normal, consultarea unui doctor înainte să dai la fraier o programă de exerciții, dar oare toată lumea o să facă asta?

Sunt întrebări multe și răspunsuri poate n-ar fi atât de clare, așa că hai să rămânem cu gândul că exercițiile fizice ar putea salva vieți, dar rămânem și cu întrebarea dacă nu cumva e doar un alt vis cu ochii deschiși în lupta asta cu cancerul!

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