It may not be time to start pumping iron just yet, but, as strange as it sounds, there is evidence in up-to-date mice studies published in the February 6th issue of Cell Metabolism that indicates that the type of muscles that are advanced by weight lifting may play a bigger role in regulating body weight than we think.

You're saying, someone has a lab full of bench-pressing mice in some healing school somewhere? Although a great image, you would only be right about the healing school part. It turns out that a team of researchers at the Whitaker Cardiovascular produce of Boston University healing town (Bumc) has been bulking up their test mice using a technique that genetically turns on the type of fast skeletal muscles (type Ii) that are used for tasks like managing heavy objects.

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No, really- somewhere in a lab in Boston, there was a team of muscular mice who were bulked up like weight trainers by genetic manipulation. Interestingly, the researchers didn't see what they expected.

The investigate group had improbable their gene tweaking to succeed in fat but strong mice, more like sumo wrestlers than body builders, since the mice were being fed a fast-food-like, high-fat and high-sucrose, diet causing them to be fat to begin with all the improbable problems. What they got instead was a test group that showed determined metabolic improvements when the type Ii fast muscle genetic switch was turned on and the muscles developed. "Remarkably, type Ii muscle growth was linked with an allinclusive allowance in body mass, due to a large decrease in fat mass. In addition, blood tests showed that these mice became metabolically general and their fatty liver disease rapidly resolved," said senior author Kenneth Walsh, PhD, a professor of medicine and head of Molecular Cardiology at the Whitaker Cardiovascular produce at Busm. The beneficial changes occurred despite the fact that the mice continued to eat the same high-calorie diet and did not display any growth in bodily activity. "This work shows that type Ii muscle just doesn't allow you to pick up heavy objects, it is also prominent in controlling whole body metabolism," added Walsh.

Further analysis found that the mice burned fat because of changes in the physiology and gene expression of their fat and liver cells. "Thus, it appears that the growth in type Ii muscle fiber orchestrates changes in the body straight through its quality to tell with these other tissues," he said.

So, here is what all of this may mean to us. We've always known that activities like weight lifting that form fast, type Ii muscles were good for burning calories that might otherwise change to fat. What we didn't know was that the existence of this muscle type could have such far-reaching succeed in other metabolic areas as well, such as reducing hepatic steatosis (fatty liver). Walsh believes there might well be an extended connection to humans suggesting that "strength training, in addition to the widely prescribed therapy of durability training, may be of singular advantage to overweight individuals."

The researchers are still busy revealing the interplay in the middle of diet, muscle type, and the body's metabolic systems. Their introductory investigate is clearly the beginning of a longer process, and hopefully the additional comprehension can lead to improvements in the medicine of those in need of weight loss and additional cut conditions like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension.

Who would have idea that paying attentiveness to a bunch of buff mice would have such far-reaching results.

Remember, too, that this description is for facts purposes only. If you have or think you have a health issue, including weight or diet issues, consult your primary care physician for proper diagnoses and treatment.

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