Exercise in the form of strength training creates such broad changes in metabolism and produces such diverse benefits to health that it is interesting to see a specific example in which it doesn’t help at all. That is possibly a path to better understanding which of the results of exercise are important, versus which are not, when it comes to functional improvement of specific tissues in later life. Many of the benefit of exercise are likely secondary effects produced by changes in skeletal muscle metabolism and myokine signaling on other parts of the body. Those effects will be largely absent in a study such as this, where only one small set of muscles are tr…
Tongue Exercise Does Not Help with the Age-Related Decline of Tongue Muscle Function in Rats
Exercise in the form of strength training creates such broad changes in metabolism and produces such diverse benefits to health that it is interesting to see a specific example in which it doesn’t help at all. That is possibly a path to better understanding which of the results of exercise are important, versus which are not, when it comes to functional improvement of specific tissues in later life. Many of the benefit of exercise are likely secondary effects produced by changes in skeletal muscle metabolism and myokine signaling on other parts of the body. Those effects will be largely absent in a study such as this, where only one small set of muscles are tr…