How Overtraining Ruins Your Immune System!
Khamzat Chimaev recently had to withdraw from his fight against Robert Whittaker due to severe illness. It's not the first time that Khamzat has missed a fight due to health issues. Dana White recently said how "every time he gets close, he gets really sick."
Could Khamzat be overreaching or overtraining? Could his hard training camps potentially play a role in this? Only his doctors know - but let's look at the scientific link between high-intensity training and immune system function.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Khamzat's Illnesses
1:09 High-Intensity Training
1:48 Overreaching & Overtraining
2:53 Immune Cells
3:30 Nervous System
3:59 Hormones
4:33 Inflammation
5:17 Metabolism
5:44 Dehydration
6:04 Malnutrition
6:32 Fight Camp
7:06 Prevention
SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES
GENERAL:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23247...
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/9/868
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1549029/
CYTOKINES:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
OXIDATIVE STRESS:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20077...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17697...
HORMONES:
https://bmcsportsscimedrehabil.biomed...