Two interesting metabolic health studies published this month! 👉🏽 Effect of sweeteners on weight management and gut microbiota composition in individuals with overweight or obesity: the SWEET study 🔘 ~1.6 kg improvement in across all participants 🔘 ~3.8 kg improvement in the highest adherence group

Okay I’m officially done on X/Twitter. In dire need of a healthy science community with people posting interesting takes on research. Where are my nutrition and metabolism people…? 🍎

In my latest Substack, I cover the science of how biology fights back after weight loss: 🔘 Metabolic adaptation (or not…) 🔘 Hunger hormone shifts 🔘 Heightened reward sensitivity to food cues 🔘 A potential “memory” of obesity in fat cells 🔗 josephmatthewsphd.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

What is dietary protein quality? New paper in the Journal of Nutrition. My first, first-author paper since joining UAMS. Dietary protein quality is the ability of a protein source to provide bioavailable essential amino acids (EAAs). But what affects this…?👇🏽 🔗 shorturl.at/elQLE

One year in Little Rock, Arkansas! 🇺🇸 It's hard to believe a year has passed already. Looking forward to spending more time in The Natural State!

🚨 New study 🚨 The biggest project of my PhD is out in MSSE journal. 🔑 findings: Strength training improves running economy durability & high-intensity performance following prolonged running. 🙏🏼 R. Blagrove and J. Folland for the SUPERvision on this. 🔗 journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... 🧵 1/10

Do carnosine and beta-alanine (BA) offer benefits beyond enhancing exercise performance? Yes and no 🤔 📰 Thread with summary of research and links to open-access papers 👇🏽

Christopher W. Sundberg et al. investigated the cumulative effects of H+ and Pi on #force and #power of skeletal muscle fibres from young and older adults 💥🔋 📜 Read the #Research here: https://buff.ly/40BBX02

The latest publication from our lab at UAMS 👇🏼

2024 Protein Nutrition Review! What's new in dietary protein? 🥩🫘 A brief overview of SEVEN insightful muscle protein synthesis (MPS) studies (references and links included) 👇🏽

New study suggests a higher plant-to-animal protein ratio is associated with lower risks of CVD and CAD. I find these studies challenging to interpret given the underlying data used in the analyses: "A food frequency questionnaire was administered every 4 years to determine dietary intake"

“Cellular engineering has already allowed us to rebuild parts of humans with re-engineered cells. As our understanding of this arena grows, new medical and ethical conundrums will arise, intensifying and challenging the basic definition of who we are, and how much we wish to change ourselves.”

Finally finished this masterpiece from @DrSidMukherjee - a beautiful story on the past, present, and future of cell biology and its role in health and disease 🦠🧬🧫

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US! 🦃

Biomedical researchers share their priorities for the U.S. ahead of incoming administration: ⚪ Support education and reproductive care ⚪ Embrance medical AI ⚪ Protect patients ⚪ Prepare for the next pandemic ⚪ Be smarter with antibiotics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hugely relatable scene in the new film Joy on Netflix

Helpful 2-minute primer on Mendelian randomization: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoTg...

Two great lectures on Mendelian randomization and evidence triangulation by @mendelrandom.bsky.social - thanks to @bennettoxford.bsky.social for making these publicly available! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...

Beautiful 🤌🏽

The Consensus app is a game-changer for scientific searches and writing. It generates research summaries and links to peer-reviewed articles (also available as an app via Chat GPT) 👇🏽

Views about the causes of obesity have polarised. Characterised by low carb and energy balance models. Last year NovoNordisk invited the protagonists of these models to Copenhagen to discuss commonalities and differences. The resultant paper has now been published in Nature Metabolism rdcu.be/dZryb

Irony intensifies: a story in three parts.

Left, a non-randomized study showing that saunas significantly decrease arterial stiffness. Right, a randomized, crossover study, showing no benefits on arterial stiffness/blood flow. Note the colossal difference in media attention. In the media, sensational studies > robust ones. #science #media

Yes please 👇🏽

Sunset over the Arkansas river in Little Rock - view from the Big Dam Bridge 🌅

Blue Sky experience so far: • No gambling ads • No Temu ads • People interacting • Interesting science posts • I actually see the posts of people I follow We are so back!

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

I enjoyed this a lot - Dr Eric Ravussin on the early metabolic chamber work and obesity research at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/63YG...

Original 1920s gymnasium in Hot Springs, Arkansas👇🏽 “This complete exercise centre has all the necessary equipment for a good work out.”