Re: Running in marathons impairs immunity

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 jmk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 11/24/2003 3:58 PM, John 'the Man' wrote:
> > Once upon a time, our fellow John 'the Man'
> >    rambled on about "Running in marathons impairs immunity."
> > Our champion De-Medicalizing in sci.med.nutrition retorts, thusly ...
> > 
> > The original post citing the 10 studies.  :)
> > 
> > Nieman DC  has published to date at least 113 research studies.  At
> > least 80 of these studies were related to exercise.  And, of these 39
> > were related to impaired immunity caused by exercise.
> 
> Oh, so you really branch out and used research by a bunch of different 
> scientists to form your opinion.  Now I understand...

The problem is not so much the paucity of different researchers, but his 
constant and cursory misinterpretation of the research cited.

I'm not sure he even read the research: most of the quoted information 
(such as the tally of the research studies mentioned above) appeared to 
have been copied/pasted from abstracts found in PubMed searches.

Van

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