Physical Exercises: Immune System Booster During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.316How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Physical Excercise; Physical Fitness; Immune System; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2
- Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the world and has become the main cause of health problems and global threats. To assist limiting the spread of the disease, many people throughout the world are being asked to stay at home and avoid interaction with other people. Places where people regularly exercise, such as fitness centers and parks, may have been temporarily closed as well. It significantly reduces physical activity, which also reduces physical fitness. The purpose of this review article is to oversee, whether if sufficient amount of physical exercises are necessary to prevent certain diseases, and to boost the overall immune system, especially against the now famous COVID-19 virus. This paper will assess a variety of exercises that are possible to do at home without the help of any special equipments. Physical exercises in this context are acting as modulators of the immune system. Literature researches were collected by using an online through website such as Science Direct, Springer Link, NCBI, Frontiers, Sage Journals, and MDPI. Literatures which is used in this study were published from 2019 to 2021. From those various literatures, it is discovered that regular endurance exercises has been proven to increase proliferation of lymphocytes, by enhancing T and B lymphocytes proliferative response, enhancing macrophage, and cytotoxic cell and increasing production of IL-2 and T cell subsets.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Caroline Tjandrawati AU - Mary Geannel Cabahug AU - Debora Magdalena Palele AU - Ferbian Ferbian PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/21 TI - Physical Exercises: Immune System Booster During the COVID-19 Pandemic BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1936 EP - 1940 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.316 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.316 ID - Tjandrawati2022 ER -