In obese individuals, endurance exercise improves fitness and increases the number of mitochondria and cellular respiration in skeletal muscles. However, the intervention has no effect on cellular ...

Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers have now discovered a new function for a protein in the ...

In my younger years I had maintained a body mass index (BMI) in the category of “normal weight†(in the lower range) without being conscious of my diet and without any help from so-called diet or ...

Respiration is a series of reactions, but this summarises the overall process. Human muscle can respire anaerobically for short periods of time – even though the process is relatively inefficient, ...