Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

Metabolism is often associated with weight loss, but its role in the body extends far beyond burning calories. It encompasses a vast network of chemical reactions responsible for converting food ...

Fat metabolism is a fascinating process and essential for human survival. It involves the digestion, absorption, transportation and utilization of lipids as a source of energy or as an energy reserve.

The Metabolism Core was designed to provide state-of-the-art assessments of human energy expenditure, substrate metabolism, body composition, body fat distribution, and bone quality; to provide ...

The human body uses three types of molecules to yield ... Another factor that dramatically affects the metabolism is the nutritional status of the individual — for instance, during fasting ...

This prompted Long to explore its metabolic pathways and he homed in on an understudied taurine metabolite called N-acetyltaurine. 1 Long’s fascination with metabolism stems from its role in how the ...

The human body is able to synthesize Vitamin D3 through exposure to UVB rays from sunlight. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to ...

Medically reviewed by Mallory Christopherson DC, FMT, CSCS An endomorph is a human body type, or somatotype, characterized by ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

Human liver UDP-glucuronosyltransferases ... overall clearance from the body. For instance, the study on medetomidine and propranolol demonstrated that the metabolism of these drugs by UGTs ...

A recent study introduces an innovative method for analyzing body composition using advanced 3D imaging and deep learning ...