Science Weekly

Can mitochondria alter metabolism? Does obesity cause depression? Why you should keep trying even if you have failed multiple times? The 4 category of obesity. 

​Science is producing amusing results week by week investigating subjects and topics that may change the way our children will live their life a few decades from now on.

Science is producing amusing results week by week investigating subjects and topics that may change the way our children will live their life a few decades from now on.

Yet again very interesting topics this week in the weekly round-up of fitness and nutrition science research. This week scientists were investigating Type 2 diabetes, other medical conditions, cognitive function and and their correlation to exercise, nutrition and survival skills.

​This week's research results are really of varied topic: from VR benefits in training through how the Mediterranean diet may be an answer for many modern life challenges to other nutrition habits or foods and their effects on our lives.

​This week's fitness and nutrition research has ventured into less known research subjects, like the connection betwen exercise and memory function, how mental imagery technique can boost weight loss results, the beneficial effects of milk protein on people going through cancer treatment or how Nepal's Sherpa people have muscles specially adapted to their environment that makes them more resistant to muscle fatigue. 

Scientists once again had a very busy week publishing papers, the below snippets are just the highlights of what'd been going on. Research topics are around the connection between the gut, our brain, obesity and metabolic deseases. Did you know for certain animal research they use the fruit flies? They seem to be the most sensitive exerimental system to monitor diet induced cellular changes, likely the closest science can get to how mammals would react. Mindblowing. 

This week's topics vary on a larger scale: how elevated blood sugar levels in pregnancy can affect both the mother's and the child's health,  the benefits of dietary fiber for ageing population and they seem to have found a molecule with anti-ageing effect on the vascular system. If you always wondered WHY we burn more energy when we exercise, you may find your answer here too.