Sami Mansfield: Muscle equals Magic

Sami Mansfield shared a post on LinkedIn by Jackson Fyfe, Lecturer at Deakin University, adding:

“Muscle equals Magic.

Reminder to everyone to do resistance training at least twice per week. More if you can!

Use your bodyweight, add anything weighted around your home or pick up some equipment. Get lifting!”

Quoting Jackson Fyfe’s post:

“Muscles are for more than just movement.

Exercising muscle releases hundreds of myokines allowing crosstalk with other organs including:

• Gut
• Skin
• Liver
• Bone
• Brain
• Pancreas
• Vascular bed
• Adipose tissue

These pathways may partly explain why exercise lowers the risk of various chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.”

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Source: Sami Mansfield/LinkedIn and Jackson Fyfe/LinkedIn

Sami Mansfield is the founder of Cancer Wellness for Life. She’s been a certified cancer exercise specialist since 2003 and has dedicated her career to implementing evidence-based lifestyle education, resources and tools into cancer care for both the patients and the providers.

She is also a Chair of Cancer Member Interest Group, at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Breast Cancer Taskforce Co-Chair at Colorado Cancer Coalition.