Why Losing Muscle With Age May Raise Your Cancer Risk
This study suggests maintaining muscle through exercise may support the body's natural anti-tumor signaling.
Healthy muscle releases tiny packets called extracellular vesicles that actually suppress tumor growth. As muscle shrinks with age (sarcopenia), it sends out fewer of these protective packets. In flies and mice, this helped tumors grow more easily. Exercise reactivated the pathway that produces these anti-tumor vesicles.
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