• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Wait, what? So, is this part of lifting weights?

    Our skeleton is much more than a rigid scaffold for the body, says geneticist Gérard Karsenty of Columbia University. Our bones secrete a protein called osteocalcin, discovered in the 1970s, that rebuilds the skeleton. In 2007, Karsenty and colleagues discovered that this protein acts as a hormone to keep blood sugar levels in check and burn fat. Later, his group showed that the hormone is important for maintaining brain function and physical fitness, restoring memory in aged mice and boosting performance during exercise in old mice and people. The findings led Karsenty to hypothesize that animals evolved bony skeletons to escape danger.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/hormone-secreted-bones-may-help-us-escape-danger

      • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 hours ago

        The hormone that your bone-making cells secrete to say “bone foundation is laid, bring the concrete” was hijacked by the brain through evolution god knows how many years ago to simulate the “we need to fucking go” thought and you call that entry level??