Irisin, Light My Fire
- 6 April 2012
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 336 (6077), 42-43
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1221688
Abstract
Regular physical activity confers enormous fitness benefits. Exercise training enhances muscular endurance and strength, expends calories, and combats the development of common diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The effects of exercise are systemic and seemingly cannot be explained solely by the expenditure of calories in muscle ( 1 ). A recent study by Böstrom et al. ( 2 ) describes a mechanism that may elucidate how total body energy expenditure is increased by exercising muscle.Keywords
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