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What if your muscles could talk to your organs and maybe even prevent cancer? Here, Ben sits down with world-renowned exercise scientist Professor Mark Febbraio to dismantle the science behind myokines - molecules released by muscle that signal throughout the body.


Insights covered in this episode:

🧪 Myokines and inter-organ communication

🦠 Exercise’s role in cancer prevention

🧬 Inflammation, cytokines & what IL-6 does

🧠 The cognitive power of exercise & BDNF

🏋️‍♂️ What type of training protects best and how much is too much

💉 Why we don’t understand GLP-1 side effects yet

🧫 The future of exercise mimetics & blood-based therapies

🧠 Why “we don’t know” might be science’s most honest answer


From interleukin-6’s double life to how exercise blood can fight tumours, this one’s a digestible dive into how movement truly is medicine.


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