The Best Way to Protect Against COVID-19 with Dr. Robert Sallis

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is an activity associated with cutting your risk of death from COVID by two and a half times, and cutting risk of developing severe COVID by two times. That activity is exercise, and the study that established its power as a modifiable risk factor against the coronavirus was led by Dr. Robert Sallis, past president of the American College of Sports Medicine and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship program at California’s Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. In this episode he’s in conversation with Medcan chief medical officer Dr. Peter Nord. </span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com/podcast/ep-65-how-to-protect-against-covid"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com/podcast/ep-65-how-to-protect-against-covid</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>LINKS</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study lead by Dr. Robert Sallis in the British Journal of Sports Medicine:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/07/bjsports-2021-104080"> https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/07/bjsports-2021-104080</a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times’ Well blog story on the COVID/Fitness study:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/well/move/exercise-covid-19-working-out.html"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/well/move/exercise-covid-19-working-out.html</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exercise is Medicine blog post by Bob Sallis and James Sallis that provides good background on some of Sallis’s frustration with the public health response to COVID:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/stories/?b=959"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/stories/?b=959</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources tying fitness level and exercise to immune function:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_p