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20 years ago, martin van divided was a highly promising young swimmer in 2001 he was diagnosed with leukemia. while still in his teens. i was 19 i was focused on the next swimming competition on the next will championships, are always trading hogs, always working hogs. and all of a sudden i was late in hospital bed and i was diagnosed leukemia felt like a nightmare. it felt like it was not me, but it was a stem cell transplant, helped him to escape the nightmare. after 6 months in a hospital bed, he was back in his ellamin the pool. the 1st couple of years after my treatment,

i was to lation. i 1st played at my parents a lots and they were complaining to my doctor that that was not doing a thing. and then i started to enjoy exercises and swimming a bit again and to make a long story short, a couple of years later, too late. a one olympic gold medal with almost like diesel moments when i was diagnosed leukemia. but when i was diagnosed leukemia, it was a huge nightmare. and i was beautiful ah peach . catallo was also diagnosed with cancer. in 2015 doctors found

a number of malignant tumors in her breast chemotherapy, helped to get the better of the disease. but for her there was another vital factor, the great outdoors. i love it to be outdoors because the inspiration outdoors is amazing. that site life is not indoors, life is outdoors and your immune system is stimulated by being outdoors. you need the lights coming from the sun for your heart health. laugh christine. she was still undergoing therapy when she found it, outdoor gates. an organization set up to encourage other cancer sufferers to help themselves through sport, and exercise from endurance training to white lifting, or indeed toiling your way up a mountain. ah,

okay. let's start. pete's got teller is convinced of the positive impact of exercise for cancer patients. a little burning and exile with all those ladies developed cancer a few years ago. and they started through the sports and they never stopped doing sports. they are healthy, funny methyl strong that so early for me it's an amazing thing. my benefits are not limited to stimulating circulation or strengthening the immune system. this kind of sports therapy is also about boosting your sense of camaraderie and being able to talk about the disease isn't only larger they, people will, you don't need to worry about talking openly about the subject or spending time with them. and i wish we could, it's empowering to see these people here after work 2 of us. but even if i'm tired and if they can do it or so can i put on something on the bench binge economy

economy thing, what kinds of a school does not kill cancer cells, but it goes to increase the chances of beating it. say's petrov tullet with martin's on his iden, has a different perspective. he has fortune not threatening training to thank for his survival. oh, of the most lazy patients that you can imagine. and as things thing, if there's a my fellow patients, they did that fitness course day where the fit once with the treatment did not help for them. and i was in the lacy patients and i was the one that had the luck to think of them. i do not believe that

that chance off the golf lee in cases by doing more sports, doing your treatments and i think we have to be very careful with not blaming patients that they do not support enough. if society tells us that the weekend fights can then and we can battle cancer, and when we fell, those people who did not pick up from cancer, we'd tell them that they almost weak and that they lost that battle. and i think that's not, that's not a fair cut. the scientific point of view over a decade ago, germany's national center thought you my diseases in heidelberg, began examining the effect of physical exercise on cancer patients in 2016 and i got the diagnosis and that total from like most cancer patients,

they for a deep hole i was very tired. i couldn't do gardening, i just didn't feel like it. i just read a book or, and i started eating chips, these potato chips. i was getting fatter, sophisticated stomach, i lost a few sport and exercise cannot directly combat a tumor. although several 100 studies show that cancer patients who exercise live longer, we can the fuel efficient. it can reduce certain side effects of cancer therapy and ensure that patients emerge further through the therapy and i able to co better with the everyday life just skipped. so they asked at last, the preliminary data suggests that physical exercise can lower the risk of relapse in his ankle in research is currently being conducted to determine which kinds of exercise are most beneficial. and then in many how many of the pound a drug that is effective, you wouldn't say just take as much as you want. the dosage has to be right. i'm.

but i'm very asthma clifton, out of young. there is no special anti cancer exercise as such, depending on the tumor, it's the quality and quantity that matter. there might be an emphasis on endurance sport or strength training, depending on the case. workers loyal huston or moose. i've got a lot more energy. this great, absolutely. super hardwood. oh again and again, i wouldn't stop. so while research has provided valuable insights, things could improve on the practical side. as actor eliza saw that right now, sports and exercise therapy and not parts of regular health insurance coverage in germany. there are various reasons i think, but the insurance companies should make a move and say that they'll pay for it with my b wouldn't get all patients included. but it helped to start the ball rolling and hopefully qualify for prescription dominic off the market because it's done fawton fake is done controlscan. and that is where outdoor against cancer hope to

help it organizes events like the night hike held simultaneously in 6 locations. ah, welcome to our 1st night hike. this hike by a lake outside munich is about both exercise and education. it's also funded by the european union in order to increase awareness of sport and cats. i pad is about going out in the evening, living outdoors and enjoying the beauty of the nature and doing something for your health. so they are in a social community. they feel comfortable, they don't have to be alone at home. they're doing something for the health and against cancer. they're doing something for their fuses and that psych they do something for a positive life. so this is our message. this is our vision. this is my vision,

and i will come for that with martin from the vidas has his own vision when it comes to helping cancer patients, hulu. ah, in the netherlands, there are more than 100000 people diagnosed cancer for you. and the big 40 thousands do not have to luck to recover and they die. and it sits a huge problem. ah, in 2018, he had a crazy idea. the netherlands used to have an 11 city tour, a hugely popular speedskating event held unfrozen canals. it was suspended in 1997 as winter's became too warm. so on the invite and decided to swim little in state when i decided to swim, the 11th city to i was not aware how many kilometers do you have 11 city to was and

i went back home and i was googling and and then i, i found out and it was 200 kilometers. wow, wow. wow. i wasn't big, tempting 10 kilometers. so that was quite a long thing before. well, maybe if everything works out, maybe it's possible. his 1st attempt failed off to 160 kilometers and a lot of pain. but in the summer of 2019, he managed the full 200. almost 4 days in the water with only brief breaks for a snooze on the escort boat. but why did he do it? ah, for my history in the hospital where my fellow patience did not make it, but it still doesn't feel fan. why did i have to like to a golfer and i did my fellow patience. my friends did not have to luck and then

almost. ready some sort of guilds started almost with the 5 kids. and with that survivor guild i thought, well, i want to do everything i can to raise funds for cancer, the folks to increase the chance of luck for her future patients. and if i hadn't managed to raise some 12000000 euros in donations through his very own 11 city tour pressures, funds that he's passing on to cancer research projects. ah mac, me funny if i may not believe in the direct healing powers of sports, but he has showed that sport can how to battle the disease. ah

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