One of the most precious developments of modern medicine, lifesaving organ transplantation enables over 4,000 people per year in the UK to have the ‘gift of life’ [1]. The Transplant Games were initiated by Maurice Slapak in 1978, principally as a vehicle to encourage transplantees to engage in sport and exercise. Indeed, physical activity, which […]
Month: March 2018
Risks associated with sitting and physical inactivity are not comparable to those of smoking (Letter to the Editor)
By Brigid M. Lynch, Paul A. Gardiner, Jeff K. Vallance, Terry Boyle, Neville Owen and Ron Borland Letter in Response to Online First Article (8 January 2018) “Infographic: Physical activity, sitting time and mortality.” Ekelund’s Infographics piece1 provides an overview of the Ekelund et al.2 harmonised meta-analysis of the joint effects of self-reported sitting and […]
Skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise: can we call it “Sarcohormesis”?
By Maurílio Dutra and Martim Bottaro More than eighty years ago, the process of adaptation of the human body in response to a specific stressor to return to normal homeostasis was termed “general adaptation syndrome”[1]. The concept was then broadened to what it is now referred to as the hormesis theory[2]. The idea of hormesis has […]