Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

The relationship between nutrition, metabolism, and brain health is an expanding field crucial to understanding cognitive aging and disease prevention.

Brain cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes represent a specialised set of metabolic proteins that, while less abundant than their hepatic counterparts, play an increasingly acknowledged role in the local ...

The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one-quarter of the body's sugar energy, or glucose, daily. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new ...

How does blood chemistry differ between those who are more active and less active? How is fitness linked to molecular changes? Here’s the research. The post More exercise, better brain health?

A new open-source model of brain metabolism, developed by scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful ...

Fasting has long been sold as a shortcut to weight loss, but a growing body of research suggests the real action may be ...

People who work the nightshift or odd hours and eat at irregular times are more prone to weight gain and diabetes, likely due to eating patterns not timed with natural daylight and when people ...

A new study shows that disrupted brain lipids play a central role in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that microglia control key lipid changes linked to amyloid buildup, inflammation and neuron ...

In recent years, the opioid epidemic has surged to alarming proportions, casting a shadow over communities worldwide. This crisis, fueled by an increase in the prescription of opioid medications and ...

Jonathan Johnston has received funding from BBSRC, MRC, ESRC and Diabetes-UK. He has collaborated with Nestle and has undertaken consultancy work for Kellogg’s and International Flavors and Fragrances ...