Strength Training and Myokines: Exercise as Medicine

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Think of your muscles as a pharmacy. Each time they contract, they release powerful messengers called Myokines. These molecules circulate throughout your body, improving health, fighting disease, and slowing decline. Muscle is the pharmacy. Myokines are the medicine. Strength training is the delivery system. 

When you strength train your muscles to release myokines and unlock a cascade of benefits: 

Metabolic protection. Better blood sugar regulation and fat balance. 

Lower inflammation. Healthier heart, joints, and circulation. 

Cognitive resilience. Sharper thinking, stronger memory, elevated mood. 

Immune strength. Improved defense and systemic resilience. 

Age resistance. Myokines counter muscle loss (sarcopenia) and drive healthier aging.

Unlike casual activity or steady-state cardio, evidence-based resistance training provides the targeted stimulus to maximize myokine release. 

Effort-driven. It doesn’t require marathon workouts. The right level of effort is what unlocks myokines. 

Safe and sustainable. With Exerbotics at The Exercise Coach, resistance is precisely controlled and joint-friendly, so every fitness level benefits. 

Consistent activation. The Exercise Coach protocols ensure myokines are released in every session, with no wasted effort.

Learn more about muscle’s secret medicine, myokines, by listening to Strength Changes Everything podcast season 2, episode 43.  Podcast co-hosts Amy Hudson, an Exercise Coach studio owner, and Dr. James Fisher, leading researcher in evidence-based strength training, explain how strength training floods your body with health-boosting signals and why myokines are called “magic.”

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