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elleng

(136,391 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 12:08 PM Jul 2013

How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells

Exercise promotes health, reducing most people’s risks of developing diabetes and growing obese. But just how, at a cellular level, exercise performs this beneficial magic — what physiological steps are involved and in what order — remains mysterious to a surprising degree.

Several striking new studies, however, provide some clarity by showing that exercise seems able to drastically alter how genes operate.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/how-exercise-changes-fat-and-muscle-cells/?hp&_r=0

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How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells (Original Post) elleng Jul 2013 OP
Very interesting. Raffi Ella Aug 2013 #1
we can change our body as we like coucouza Oct 2013 #2
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Raffi Ella

(4,465 posts)
1. Very interesting.
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:11 PM
Aug 2013

"Remarkably, these methylation patterns can be passed on to offspring – a phenomenon known as epigenetics.

What is particularly fascinating about the methylation process is that it seems to be driven largely by how you live your life."

coucouza

(20 posts)
2. we can change our body as we like
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 11:02 AM
Oct 2013

Genetic side is a promising way to find solutions to our fitness problems . Man is genetically pre-determined, but its growth potential is unlimited. with exercises, we can change our body as we like, but without a proper diet it's impossible to do that.

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