Short bouts of exercise can protect against bowel cancer, according to a study, giving researchers hopes for new cancer treatments.<\/p>\n
Researchers from Newcastle University found exercising for just 10 minutes could halt bowel cancer growth and speed up DNA damage repair.<\/p>\n
Dr Sam Orange, who led the study, said it showed exercise benefitted healthy tissues as well as potentially creating a more hostile environment for cancer cells to grow.<\/p>\n
“In the future, these insights could lead to new therapies that imitate the beneficial effects of exercise on how cells repair damaged DNA and use fuel for energy,” he said.<\/p>\n
The research was conducted on 30 overweight or obese men who were healthy, with blood samples taken before and immediately after a 10-12 minute cycle ride.<\/p>\n
Researches then exposed bowel cancer cells to pre- or post-exercise blood serum.<\/p>\n
Acute exercise increased the concentration of 13 proteins, many of which are linked to reducing inflammation, improving blood vessel function and metabolism.<\/p>\n
Dr Orange, a senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology, said it showed “even a single workout” could make a difference.<\/p>\n
“What’s remarkable is that exercise doesn’t just benefit healthy tissues, it sends powerful signals through the bloodstream that can directly influence thousands of genes in cancer cells,” he said.<\/p>\n
The research team said their finding offered a “potential mechanistic explanation for the protective effects of exercise” against bowel cancer.<\/p>\n
Genevieve Edwards, chief executive at the charity Bowel Cancer UK, said people should aim for 150 minutes of exercise each week, such as brisk walking, cycling or swimming.<\/p>\n
Eating fibre from whole grains, pulses, fruits and vegetables, avoiding processed meat and cutting down on alcohol also reduced the risk.<\/p>\n
She added: “Making lifestyle changes can be a challenge, but we believe it’s worth the effort.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Short bouts of exercise can protect against bowel cancer, according to a study, giving researchers hopes for new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-216111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}