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The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males
Baths in cold water are a popular physical activity performed to improve health. This study aimed to determine whether repeated cold-water exposure leads to the up-regulation of antioxidant defenses and whether or not this leads to a reduction in basal and/or acute pulses of oxidative distress in hu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36837762 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13020143 |
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author | Wesołowski, Roland Mila-Kierzenkowska, Celestyna Pawłowska, Marta Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina Saletnik, Łukasz Sutkowy, Paweł Woźniak, Alina |
author_facet | Wesołowski, Roland Mila-Kierzenkowska, Celestyna Pawłowska, Marta Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina Saletnik, Łukasz Sutkowy, Paweł Woźniak, Alina |
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description | Baths in cold water are a popular physical activity performed to improve health. This study aimed to determine whether repeated cold-water exposure leads to the up-regulation of antioxidant defenses and whether or not this leads to a reduction in basal and/or acute pulses of oxidative distress in humans. The study group consisted of 28 healthy male members of the WS club (average age 39.3 ± 6.1 years). The study sessions occurred at the beginning and the end of the WS season. During the WS season, the participants took 3-min cold-water baths in a cold lake once a week. Blood samples were collected three times during each session: before the bath, 30 min after the bath, and 24 h after the bath. The activity of selected antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), as well as the concentration of lipid peroxidation (LPO) products, including thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and conjugated dienes (CD), were determined in erythrocytes. The concentration of TBARS, CD, retinol, and α-tocopherol were determined in the blood plasma, whereas the level of other LPO products, including 4-hydroxynonenal and 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α, were determined in the blood serum. The repeated cold exposure up-regulated most antioxidant defenses, and this led to an attenuation of most indicators of oxidative stress at the baseline and acute pulses in response to cold exposure. In conclusion, due to regular cold exposure, the antioxidant barrier of winter swimmers was stimulated. Thus, short cold-bath sessions seem to be an effective intervention, inducing promoting positive adaptive changes such as the increased antioxidant capacity of the organism. |
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spelling | pubmed-99679922023-02-27 The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males Wesołowski, Roland Mila-Kierzenkowska, Celestyna Pawłowska, Marta Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina Saletnik, Łukasz Sutkowy, Paweł Woźniak, Alina Metabolites Article Baths in cold water are a popular physical activity performed to improve health. This study aimed to determine whether repeated cold-water exposure leads to the up-regulation of antioxidant defenses and whether or not this leads to a reduction in basal and/or acute pulses of oxidative distress in humans. The study group consisted of 28 healthy male members of the WS club (average age 39.3 ± 6.1 years). The study sessions occurred at the beginning and the end of the WS season. During the WS season, the participants took 3-min cold-water baths in a cold lake once a week. Blood samples were collected three times during each session: before the bath, 30 min after the bath, and 24 h after the bath. The activity of selected antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), as well as the concentration of lipid peroxidation (LPO) products, including thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and conjugated dienes (CD), were determined in erythrocytes. The concentration of TBARS, CD, retinol, and α-tocopherol were determined in the blood plasma, whereas the level of other LPO products, including 4-hydroxynonenal and 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α, were determined in the blood serum. The repeated cold exposure up-regulated most antioxidant defenses, and this led to an attenuation of most indicators of oxidative stress at the baseline and acute pulses in response to cold exposure. In conclusion, due to regular cold exposure, the antioxidant barrier of winter swimmers was stimulated. Thus, short cold-bath sessions seem to be an effective intervention, inducing promoting positive adaptive changes such as the increased antioxidant capacity of the organism. MDPI 2023-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9967992/ /pubmed/36837762 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13020143 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wesołowski, Roland Mila-Kierzenkowska, Celestyna Pawłowska, Marta Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina Saletnik, Łukasz Sutkowy, Paweł Woźniak, Alina The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title | The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title_full | The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title_short | The Influence of Winter Swimming on Oxidative Stress Indicators in the Blood of Healthy Males |
title_sort | influence of winter swimming on oxidative stress indicators in the blood of healthy males |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36837762 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13020143 |
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