First steps toward a whole-body map of molecular responses to exercise
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Research definitively confirms that muscle-moving, calorie-burning activity slows the advance of disease, improves cognitive function, boosts the immune system, and reduces rates of mortality from all causes.
Scientists are now going even deeper into the effects of exercise on humans and other mammals by investigating the impacts of exercise at the molecular level. They aim to uncover, at the smallest scales, the impacts of exercise and to better understand how the body works in states of health and disease.
Molecules are clusters of atoms. They represent the smallest unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction. Such chemical reactions in proteins, carbohydrates, lipids (fats), and nucleic acids—the "omics" (cellular components) that control the inner workings of every organ system.
