Austin, Texas, USA (September 10, 2022) — The severe muscle atrophy and weakness commonly associated with cancer growth (i.e., cachexia) can be prevented simply by being deprived of FNDC5, the ...

Physical activity staves off dementia, but does that mean being sedentary makes cognitive decline more likely? Yes, according to David Raichlen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and ...

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 ...

Irisin, a hormone also known as FNDC5, has been linked to many of the positive benefits associated with physical exercise. In the past year, a controversy erupted over possible flaws in the methods ...

In a recent study published in Neuron, researchers explored the biological mechanisms by which exercise-induced irisin attenuates amyloid-beta (Aβ) pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD, a form of ...