How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System
This article could not be more wrong, and anyone who has been a truly serious athlete will agree with me.<p>There are perhaps a dozen times in my life when I was training  with abnormally high intensity even for a very competitive endurance athlete and fell ill immediately afterward.<p>These range from 2 hr brutal races to 3-4 days of 5-7 hrs daily intense training or race efforts. I very rarely catch a cold, but it&#x27;s more often than not after an effort that stands out to me as memorably difficult.<p>Any serious cyclist will agree with me. Even competitive high school athletes know that you are most likely to get sick right before taper.<p>This is an example of misinterpretation of scientific experiment, most likely by the journalists but possibly by the scientists themselves.<p>EDIT: I don&#x27;t take issue with &quot;immune response is heightened after exercise&quot;. I&#x27;m sure it is. I take issue with this quote: &quot;But it is unlikely to have made you vulnerable to colds or other illnesses afterward, according to a myth-busting new review of the latest science about immunity and endurance exercise&quot;.