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Monday, August 13, 2018

One more reason why it's important to EXERCISE when you have cirrhosis

I can't tell you what to do, and you should check with your doctor before starting any type of exercise regimen. But I have to say, it truly seems like the people who exercise and work out, seem to be the ones who get the best recovery results when they have cirrhosis.

This is a study that shows how intense exercise stimulates albumin synthesis. It's very important to be sure your body produces enough albumin, because the lack of albumin in your body causes fluid retention / edema and ascites.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10642360

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2000 Jan;88(1):41-6.

Intense exercise stimulates albumin synthesis in the upright posture.

Nagashima K¹, Cline GW, Mack GW, Shulman GI, Nadel ER.

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Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that an elevation in albumin synthetic rate contributes to increased plasma albumin content during exercise-induced hypervolemia. Albumin synthetic rate was measured in seven healthy subjects at 1-5 and 21-22 h after 72 min of intense (85% peak oxygen consumption rate) intermittent exercise and after 5 h recovery in either upright (Up) or supine (Sup) postures. Deuterated phenylalanine (d(5)-Phe) was administrated by a primed-constant infusion method, and fractional synthetic rate (FSR) and absolute synthetic rate (ASR) of albumin were calculated from the enrichment of d(5)-Phe in plasma albumin, determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. FSR of albumin in Up increased significantly (P < 0.05) from 4.9 +/- 0.9%/day at control to 7.3 +/- 0.9%/day at 22 h of recovery. ASR of albumin increased from 87.9 +/- 17.0 to 141.1 +/- 16.6 mg albumin. kg body wt(-1). day(-1). In contrast, FSR and ASR of albumin were unchanged in Sup (3.9 +/- 0.4 to 4.0 +/- 1.4%/day and 74.2 +/- 8.9 to 85.3 +/- 23.9 mg albumin. kg body wt(-1). day(-1) at control and 22 h of recovery, respectively). Increased albumin synthesis after upright intense exercise contributes to the expansion of greater albumin content and its maintenance. We conclude that stimuli related to posture are critical in modulating the drive for albumin synthesis after intense exercise.