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When did you start noticing a difference?

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[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

34 and I can only just start feeling a difference. I also noticed that I get (lightly, like a cold) sick more often, despite being more active than I ever was in my life. I also tripped off my bike and scraped my knee a couple of years ago and while it's absolutely fine, that is the first wound that left a permanent scar. When I was younger I had multiple knee grazes like that in any given year and none of them were visible after the scab fell off...

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you really get significantly less effective at fighting off viral infections until you get really old and start collecting co-morbidities.

If you're more "active" as in socialising more, you'll catch more viruses.

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I meant active as in physical exercise

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Physical exercise doesn't make your body more effective at fighting viruses. That's covid-era anti-vax meme level reasoning.

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

To what page of search results do I have to skip to read something backing this claim of yours? Because frankly I got bored after reading 10 abstracts from the first page and no luck finding anything, but plenty of conclusions stating the opposite, such as:

Higher level of habitual physical activity is associated with a 31% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.69, 95% CI 0.61–0.78, 6 studies, N = 557,487 individuals) of community-acquired infectious disease and 37% risk reduction (hazard ratio 0.64, 95% CI 0.59–0.70, 4 studies, N = 422,813 individuals) of infectious disease mortality.