{"id":15217,"date":"2019-08-16T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:03:32","slug":"can-hiv-positive-people-increase-muscle-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15217","title":{"rendered":"Can HIV positive people increase muscle mass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Before there was effective HIV treatment, many people focused on building muscle mass to help with long-term health.<\/p>\n<p>With modern HIV drugs though, exercise goals are should not be any different for HIV positive compared to HIV negative people.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your personal exercise goals, it is good to get advice from a fitness training who can help develop an exercie programme that is right for you.<\/p>\n<p>This link has more information about exercise and staying active:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/exercise-and-staying-active\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/exercise-and-staying-active<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Does being HIV positive mean it is harder to build muscle mass as a recent study said that T cells might be involved in muscle damage repair?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I know people who trained before getting infected generally have an easier time getting back their lost muscles because of muscle memory but my question is what about those who never trained before and only started consistent resistance training after getting infected and have no muscle memory to rely on?<\/p>\n<p> I\u2019m assuming the immune cells would be too busy fighting HIV and therefore muscle repair would be hindered? <\/p>\n<p>Or do ARVs do most of the heavy lifting of fighting the virus so it does not hinder immune cells ability to synthesize muscles given adequate protein nutrition?\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}