Specialized fat cells—thermogenic adipocytes—burn excess calories to generate heat. A #SciencePerspective reviews the process, known as adipose thermogenesis, and how it may hold the key to battling diseases like type 2 diabetes. bit.ly/3O4nkLn #ScienceMagArchives

🧬Feeding the Gut to Fuel the Brain 🧠 An in-depth review in Nature Metabolism uncovers how the diet-microbiota-gut-brain axis influences brain health, linking dietary habits with cognitive and emotional well-being through gut-brain communication. 🌱 📖 Highlights • Poor diets may

Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of #obesity after weight loss nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m excited to share new work out of the lab in Nature Metabolism today on the impact of tumor-relevant glucose concentrations on the response to pyrimidine synthesis inhibitors. nature.com/articles/s4225…. PDF: rdcu.be/d1vkV

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Oleuropein, a bitter polyphenol in green olive skin, flesh, seeds, and oil, is a potent activator of mitochondrial calcium uptake, with therapeutic potential for increasing energy production in skeletal muscle 💪 cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Macrophages deliver polarizing messages to promote immune suppression in tumors. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: bit.ly/3Bbu8E9

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Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth indirectly via interorgan lipid transfer | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Curious about my work? Listen here! Thanks for having me :) #keto #ketoforcancer #nutritionresearch #healthspan open.spotify.com/episode/2yEqps…

A bile acid —lithocholic acid—mimics caloric restriction and slows aging in mice, worms, flies nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

🚨 Exciting New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest study, published in #NatureMetabolism, reveals how memory circuits in the brain drive intake of fats and sugars and impact body weight. 🍫🍟 Let’s break it down! 🧵

Read the full study here: nature.com/articles/s4225…📖 And if you’d like to know more, feel free to reach out!

How wearable sensors (@Oura, fitbit, or Apple watch) detected subclinical inflammation up to 7 weeks before a flare of inflammatory bowel disease gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-… Robert Hirten MD HPI.MS Mount Sinai Health System

Current situation for scientists. Trump’s blanket order to stop communication between institutions like NIH and the public has resulted in a complete halt of grant reviews, grant funding decisions. Fun.

Delighted to highlight new work by Kelly Jameson and colleagues showing that select microbial metabolites in the small intestinal lumen regulate vagal activity cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Funding from the NIH contributed to the development of 354 out of 356 (99.4%) of the new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019, and 🚨 100% 🚨 of FDA approved drugs btw 2010-2016. NIH funding is the backbone of American biomedical innovation. #protecttheNIH

✨New issue!✨ Check out the latest in #metabolism research from across all disciplines. Read about #EVs, #Exercise, #GlucoseMonitoring, #LiverMetabolism , #Mechanosensation, #Neurometabolism - and many more topics! nature.com/natmetab/volum…

New podcast up! This is all about my career path, goals, and some personal anecdotes :) #WomenInSTEM open.spotify.com/episode/3P5dOc…

Super excited to share our data from our Phase 1 clinical trial looking at newly diagnosed #Glioblastoma patients using the #KetogenicDiet! Cedars-Sinai Cancer at Cedars-Sinai nature.com/articles/s4159…