More Exercise, More Plaque?

And what about diet? those people with high volume/high intensity tranings also eats a loooot of carbohydrates, often in the form of energy gels or foods with refined carbohydrates

I’ll just sit down until this gets resolved, wouldn’t want to risk it.😊

The more you exercise the more food you are eating it’s the type of food that makes the difference

Running is highly stressful. Marathon and long distance take running far past the therapeutic dodage.

That makes sense to me because the reaction of inflammation to exercise represents a "U" curve. Too little exercise can exacerbate inflammation yet too much exercise or over doing it causes an execive release of free radicals which can build up and also cause significant inflammation which leads to plaque build up !

I've been looking to cover this study for a while (ah, time...) - you did a wonderful job, as usual.

I'm a long term high volume/intensity exerciser (bike racing early on then running for the last couple decades). My plaque is pretty high but, like those in the study, is highly calcified and spread around rather than concentrated in limited areas (seen through CT scan). Like many performing a bunch of endurance training I ate pretty terribly most of my life thinking I could out-ride or run the poor diet (or not even thinking about diet). I suspect my current, much cleaner/healthier, diet would not cause so much plaque build up.

Can’t outrun a bad diet.

Moderation seems to be the key for everything! 2 cardio sessions (basketball, hiking), 4 35 minute weight training sessions, that's it for me.

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