Rhonda Patrick· PhD
For patients who have never exercised you know walking in as they're about to start chemotherapy and talk about exercise doesn't seem like a good time to start exercise when you've not been exercising all your life
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For patients who have never exercised you know walking in as they're about to start chemotherapy and talk about exercise doesn't seem like a good time to start exercise when you've not been exercising all your life
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the um patients that we work through exercise before diagnosis they believe in the benefits of exercise they're aware of the benefits of exercise it's not hard to convince them to try and exercise during treatment once you explain it to them
but cancer in general and treatments in general will tend to have a negative impact on patients exercise levels and they need that support to be able to exercise uh right after diagnosis