How does too much exercise affect immunity?

Doctor's Answer

Thanks for your question. You might be interested in looking into a phenomenon called over training syndrome.

In this condition when you train harder, it leads to worsening performance and it’s becomes a negative cycle. Often alongside this loss of performance, you can experience illnesses such as coughs, colds or other viral illnesses.

While 5 days of training will probably not cause this, if you over-train over a prolonged time it can lead to these issues. It might be worth seeing a sports physician who can look at your training load and adjust accordingly.

I hope this helps.

Bw

Dr Dinesh

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