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Dec 14, 2020 8:20 PM
Pennington Biomedical is hoping to begin recruitment in February or March for a groundbreaking study into why some people benefit from exercise more than others.
Director of Biomedical Imaging Dr. Owen Carmichael said many who exercise just don’t see results. The study hopes to figure out the genetics behind that.
“We measure how people respond to exercise and then compare their improvements to some of the genetic factors that they started off with,” said Carmichael.
The study is a national effort that will take place at five sites across the country, Baton Rouge being one of them.
Researchers studying why exercise makes some people healthier
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Researchers to investigate why exercise makes some people healthier than others
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Why do some people benefit so much from exercise while others enjoy few health gains or even suffer harm? Does age matter when it comes to exercise s health benefits? Are there molecular signatures - sets of genes, proteins and other variables ¬- that reveal the answers?
Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center plan to answer these and related questions with a new $2.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health s National Institute on Aging. Exercising usually leads to many health benefits. For example, exercise can help offset the declines in cardiorespiratory fitness, physical functioning and cardiometabolic health that come with aging, said Owen Carmichael, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Biomedical Imaging at Pennington Biomedical. This is at least partly because physical activity improves the performance of mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, in skeletal muscle. But