Dr. Kathryn Schmitz

New 20 min movie MOVING THROUGH CANCER from The Fund for a Sustainable Tomorrow and ACSM raises awareness of the value of exercise for people living with and beyond cancer. It features Scott Hamilton as narrator, Karen Basen-Engquist and multiple of her colleagues at MD Anderson, Susan P Helmrich, Susan Chang of UCSF, Arash Asher of Cedars Sinai, Karen Wonders of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, among others. Check it out!!! Https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=vtA1R87lkv8

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Moving Through Cancer - Full Length Film

Today's the day! Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life, is now available wherever books, e-books, and audiobooks are sold. Thousands of people are diagnosed every day, and this book will give them their best chance at beating cancer and preventing it from coming back. Patients, doctors, caregivers: I hope you'll all read it. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

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Moving Through Cancer is a groundbreaking 21-day program for all types of cancer—effective for prevention and recovery. Swipe to read more about the benefits, then pre-order the book to experience them for yourself. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

Exercise reduces the likelihood of cancer coming back. Observational studies that compare sedentary and active cancer survivors have consistently shown that moving more decreases cancer recurrence. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

By several weeks into combined chemotherapy and radiation, you are likely to be experiencing a level of fatigue and side effects that simply may not allow you to walk for 30 minutes per day. You will have bad days, but whatever you do, try. Try to walk daily, if you can. No one benefits from sitting on the couch all day. Exercise is the fourth treatment for cancer—do what you can. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

The time before you start treatment is a window of opportunity. It’s a chance to get in the shape of your life for the fight of your life. And during a time when you may feel out of control, exercise is a way to retake some control. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

A cancer diagnosis is life changing; it’s what physicians and behavioral psychologists call a “teachable moment.” But a better way to think about it is that it’s a motivational moment. When you’re faced with a cancer diagnosis, it becomes crystal clear what matters to you in life. And that can become your motivation. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

Given the level of fatigue many patients describe as the most exhausted feeling imaginable, the sense that you cannot even lift your head from the pillow—how can anyone be expected to move, let alone exercise?

While moving more seems counterproductive at first glance, exercise is the number one recommended treatment for cancer fatigue in the most widely used treatment guidelines for cancer, which are published by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and used daily by oncologists in their clinics. This recommendation is based on the results of more than 200 studies looking at the effects of exercise on cancer fatigue. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

The reason that so many caregivers and medical professionals have not embraced exercise during cancer treatment is because it’s counterintuitive. It seems logical that exercise is tiring and that cancer would demand rest for your body to battle the disease. But here is the interesting thing that decades of research into exercise have taught us: The human body has evolved so that expending energy actually increases your energy. Your body is meant to be used—that is what makes it stronger. Being sedentary actually weakens your body. This holds true for cancer patients as well. Test it for yourself. Do you feel better sitting on the couch all day? Or getting out for a walk? movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

Please order my book!

Pre-order Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life by Dr. Kathryn Schmitz, and get a downloadable/printable chart for logging your daily symptoms and workouts, plus 12 months of FREE streaming exercise classes from MyVictory Wellness! movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

This was a fun interview! Enjoy!

BodCast Episode 96: Moving Through Cancer with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz In this episode, Tim talks with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz about how movement can help people dealing with cancer, and even how movement may help prevent some types...

In one analysis that looked at the results of sixty-one clinical trials of women with breast cancer, those who exercised during treatment had better quality of life, fitness, energy, and strength, as well as significantly less anxiety and depression. A different analysis, this one including the experiences of more than 1,000 patients with a variety of advanced cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and lung, breast, gastrointestinal, and prostate cancers, found the exact same thing: Those who did regular exercise during cancer treatment had much better physical function, energy, psychological well-being, and overall quality of life. movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

You can feel strong and powerful even when facing a difficult health crisis. As I’ve said before: You CAN do it. Moving Through Cancer will show you how. Pre-order here: movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page

Pre-order Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life, and get a downloadable/printable chart for logging your daily symptoms and workouts, plus 12 months of FREE streaming exercise classes from MyVictory Wellness! movingthroughcancer.com/landing-page