It is well established that the increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) and free radicals production during exercise has both positive and negative physiological effects. Among them, the present review focuses on oxidative stress caused by acute exercise, ...
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Oxidative stress can damage cells and occurs when there is an excess of free radicals. The body produces free radicals during normal metabolic processes but also produces antioxidants to neutralize them. Long-term oxidative stress can contribute to aging and may play a role in a number of...
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Environmental stressors and working out hard when your body is being taxed in some way that we are not fully aware of yet could be causing your oxidative stress levels to exceed your body's ability to compensate.
Normally your body does respond to workout related oxidative stress by increasing the production of antioxidants, but in the presence of anything else that might be keeping your body and/or immune system run down, that feedback loop might be broken.
My recommendation at best is
- chill out
- don't push your self too hard physically
If you can manage those two things, from there you can determine whether your inflammation is being caused by something viral or bacterial.
Those mouth sores are similar to what I have gotten when my EBV gets out of control although they're not HSV, I've been tested for that, and they don't have the characteristic itch the way HSV sores do. Viral syndromes can cause them, I think your body is just f*****g taxed dude, you're taxed and stressed, so just take some lysine, hydrate well, and f*****g chill bro.
Do your very best to not allow stress to get the better of you and limit your exercise to something that isn't causing mountains of oxidative stress.