If you need one more reason to motivate yourself to be more physically active, you can add the exercise-induced hormone irisin to your list. In the past two years, scientists have discovered that a ...

Two weeks of voluntary wheel running induces higher expression of irisin--a fat-burning hormone that is released during exercise--in bone tissue in mice. In addition, systemic administration of irisin ...

A new study offers clues as to why exercise can improve neurological symptoms in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The ...

Exercise has been shown to have many health benefits. It has also been noted that exercise has a favorable effect on brain health and cognitive function. Two articles recently published now identify a ...

An exercise-induced hormone does exist in humans, say, scientists, adding that this hormone, called irisin, circulates in the blood at nanogram levels and increases during exercise. Irisin's discovery ...

Irisin is an important mediator of the neuroprotective benefits of exercise in the brain, holding potential for treating Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases “Preserving cognitive ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have shown that the hormone irisin, which is secreted into the blood during endurance, or aerobic, exercise, ...

BOSTON – Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two major hallmarks of the condition—the generation of amyloid beta ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is among the most common neurodegenerative disorders. It has no definitive treatment despite herculean efforts encompassing multiple types of drug targets and candidates.

Researchers say they have found evidence that exercise helps produces a hormone called irisin that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Irisin may enhance neprilysin, which fights the brain-damaging ...

The hormone irisin is necessary for the cognitive benefits of exercise in healthy mice and can rescue cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published August 20 in ...