{"id":1221,"date":"2011-04-07T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:37:39","slug":"obituary-for-professor-eric-arthur-newsholme-ma-dsc-phd-scd-camb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/04\/07\/obituary-for-professor-eric-arthur-newsholme-ma-dsc-phd-scd-camb\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary for Professor Eric Arthur Newsholme, MA, DSc, (PhD, ScD Camb)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/strong>Lindy Castell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Eric Newsholme died peacefully in hospital from heart failure a few hours after slipping into a coma on 17th<\/sup> March 2011.\u00a0 Although those of us who were close to him were well aware of his heart and circulation problems over several years, it was nevertheless a shock and, as many have observed, untimely.<\/p>\n

He had not completed his final project, which was a book on the scientific basis for outstanding physical performance in football. \u00a0Football was a very appropriate topic for Eric, since he was born in Liverpool, England in May 1935 and was a lifelong devotee of Liverpool Football Club. He used to express surprise that so many premier league football clubs showed little, if any, interest in therapeutic nutrition when an expensive player was hors d\u2019combat.\u00a0 Those of us who acted as occasional amanuenses, due to Eric\u2019s intense distrust of computers, were aware of his current interests.\u00a0 Eric would request reprints which we could obtain via Pubmed: he initially tried his hand at the vernacular, asking one of us to achieve this by \u201csurfing the internet, or whatever it is that you do!\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric read Natural Science at Cambridge and this was followed by a PhD in Biochemistry.\u00a0 In 1964 he moved to Oxford University to work with Sir Hans Krebs: he became a Fellow of Merton College and a Lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry in 1973. \u00a0\u00a0Eric was a rare example of a talented researcher who was also an outstanding teacher.\u00a0 He certainly captured the attention of undergraduates.\u00a0 The usual trend is for numbers to decline during a term\u2019s series of lectures:\u00a0 Eric\u2019s lectures were exceptional, in that the reverse occurred, and numbers of students attending actually increased as word got round.\u00a0 Dr Chris Milne (Australasian College of Sports Physicians) who encountered him as a visiting lecturer in London says:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fortunate to be exposed to Eric\u2019s superb teaching whilst completing the Diploma Course in Sports Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had experienced some teaching from exercise physiologists during my undergraduate and postgraduate years, but none from an exercise biochemist.\u00a0 It was great to hear about the Krebs cycle from someone who had worked alongside Hans Krebs himself.\u00a0 For most of us, a study of the Krebs cycle is only palatable following a small libation with C2<\/sub>H5<\/sub>OH, but Eric made it possible without any such premedication!\u00a0 He had the knack of making complex scientific ideas simple to understand and, in my view, was second only to the famous science fiction (and fact) writer Isaac Asimov in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn hearing of Eric\u2019s untimely death, I pulled out an article he co-wrote with Tony\u00a0Leech entitled \u2018Fatigue Stops Play\u2019 (New Scientist, 22 September 1988 p39\u201143).\u00a0 It is a masterpiece in communication of complex scientific principles in layman\u2019s terms, such that coaches can make good use of the material.\u00a0 It even anticipates some aspects of Tim Noakes\u2019 \u2018Central\u00a0Governor\u2019 model by several years.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 50 PhD students and a similar number of postdoctoral scientists received research training in Eric\u2019s lab.\u00a0 He was regarded by them as a gifted and inspirational supervisor.\u00a0 As one of his former DPhil students said:\u00a0 \u201cEric was an excellent supervisor who taught me how to be a scientist, always probing and questioning and never rushing, always stressing the importance of paying attention to detail.\u00a0 These are qualities I am trying to pass on to my students, both undergraduate and postgraduate.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 A frequent tribute to Eric from graduate students and colleagues alike was his kindness and courtesy.\u00a0 He would spend time discussing an individual\u2019s research ideas regardless of the quality:\u00a0 equally, he enjoyed coming into the lab and saying to whoever was around \u201cI have this crazy idea….!\u201d to prompt what he hoped would be a lively discussion, involving challenges to his concepts.<\/p>\n

He frequently advised us on, and tried to adhere to, the principle which Krebs instilled in him, viz. that you should only make one point per sentence.\u00a0 We were not always successful!\u00a0\u00a0 His use of red pen on first, second, third and more of his and our drafts was legendary.\u00a0 In pre-computer days, his secretary (upon presenting him with a 5th<\/sup> draft of a paper) said:\u00a0 \u201cYou can read it but sit on your hands!\u201d It says much for his teaching that, out of more than 40 Oxford DPhil theses which he supervised, only one thesis was deemed unsatisfactory at the first review.<\/p>\n

Eric published over 300 research papers and reviews:\u00a0 his textbooks (Regulation in Metabolism<\/em> by Newsholme & Start (1973) and Biochemistry for the Medical Sciences<\/em> by Newsholme & Leech (1983) provided many biochemists with much knowledge of intermediary metabolism and metabolic control.\u00a0 In particular, Newsholme & Start (1973) was regarded by many as a classic.\u00a0 Eric recently updated his 1983 textbook to become \u2018Functional Biochemistry in Health and Disease<\/em>\u2019 with Tony Leech (2010).<\/p>\n

His first full paper (with his PhD supervisor , Sir Philip Randle, in Biochem. J. 1961) was on the regulation of glucose uptake by muscle.\u00a0 Four of his papers on muscle metabolism of fatty acids, ketone bodies, glucose and pyruvate, (two of which were in Nature) expanded on the \u201cglucose-fatty acid cycle\u201d data first published by Randle, Garland, Hales and Newsholme in the Lancet (1963).\u00a0 About 20 of the 100 papers that Eric published in the Biochemical Journal are recognized as seminal papers by the research community.<\/p>\n

Eric took up marathon running in his mid-30s and successfully completed around 40 marathons:\u00a0 this gave him a considerable appreciation of energy metabolism in exercise.\u00a0 However, his work on the biochemistry of exercise and potential nutritional therapy initially stemmed from an unusual occurrence:\u00a0 his 6-yr-old daughter suffered from a particularly aggressive form of Guillain-Barre syndrome (inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy), and was paralysed for 6 months.\u00a0 She rapidly recovered to full health after receiving daily doses of sunflower seed oil and home-based physiotherapy.\u00a0 Eric recognized that, in order to understand the possible mechanisms for this outcome, he would need to \u201cget his feet wet in immunology\u201d.\u00a0 He was fortunate to receive advice and generous help with facilities from immunologists Simon Hunt and Siamon Gordon at the Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford.<\/p>\n

Work in the late 70s, early 80s with a DPhil student, MSM Ardawi, resulted in the discovery (among others) that the amino acid, glutamine, was used as a fuel at a surprisingly high level in resting, unstimulated lymphocytes. In vitro work in Eric\u2019s lab by another student, Mark Parry Billings, demonstrated that, despite the presence of all other essential nutritional components in cell culture medium, only when glutamine was decreased did a decrease in the proliferative ability of lymphocytes occur.\u00a0 Philip Newsholme (Eric\u2019s son) and, later, Philip Calder (also students) showed that glutamine was essential for macrophage function.\u00a0 On becoming aware of a decrease in some key immune cell numbers after prolonged, exhaustive exercise, Eric hypothesized that a lack of glutamine might be responsible.<\/p>\n

Glutamine is a metabolic fuel for many cells and a nitrogen donor for purine and pyrmidine nucleotide synthesis, and thus for DNA synthesis:\u00a0 there is an extensive literature on the role of glutamine in clinical situations, to which Eric\u2019s group has contributed, showing that burns and major trauma are associated with very low glutamine levels in the blood.\u00a0 Several field studies confirmed that the plasma concentration of glutamine was indeed low (by 20-25%) in endurance runners after an event, as well as in overtrained athletes at rest.\u00a0 Subsequent studies on more than 150 marathon runners showed that the provision of glutamine within the recovery period reduced self-reported illness (mostly upper respiratory tract infections) by around 43% compared with placebo.\u00a0 Five other published studies unequivocally show similar decreases.<\/p>\n

Disappointingly, it has not so far been possible to demonstrate which aspects of the immune system are affected by restoring plasma glutamine to normal physiological levels.\u00a0\u00a0 However, this situation is similar to some other, more recent studies which have looked at different supplements and self-reported illness.<\/p>\n

Eric\u2019s work in the biochemistry of exercise extended to the central fatigue hypothesis, fatigue emanating from the brain rather than from muscle.\u00a0 This is based upon the effects of a surge of unbound tryptophan, uniquely splitting from albumin in the blood, crossing the blood-brain barrier (in competition with branched chain amino acids, BCAA) to increase the synthesis of the neurotransmitter 5-HT which is involved in fatigue.\u00a0 Eric suggested that the provision of BCAA might combat the surge in tryptophan (a precursor for 5-HT, also known as serotonin) and thus reduce premature fatigue.\u00a0\u00a0 Some studies with BCAA vs placebo have shown some effect on physical performance, others have not.\u00a0 Several central fatigue studies have shown an increase in mental performance.\u00a0 Most of the studies showing no effect of BCAA did not measure mental performance:\u00a0 this is an unfortunate omission, since the mental component required to maintain a given power output is clearly of considerable importance.<\/p>\n

The third major aspect of Eric\u2019s input into exercise biochemistry concerns fatty acids and the immune system.\u00a0 This work was carried out largely with his former student, Philip Calder, whose excellent research in this area is widely reported and has certainly made an impact on exercise nutrition.\u00a0 It is hoped that their contribution to sports science in this area will be reviewed elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Eric\u2019s book with Tony Leech and Glenda Duester (Eric\u2019s daughter) \u201cKeep on Running<\/em>\u201d (1994) included his hypotheses.\u00a0 It is an extremely practical book, including running schedules from Bruce Tulloh and high carbohydrate\/low fat recipes for athletes (not just runners), but the biochemistry is also there if the reader is interested.<\/p>\n

Eric\u2019s key contributions almost certainly emanated from his desire to provide quantitative descriptions of complex metabolic pathways, and to consider whole body metabolism, not just the cell or tissue in which the study was conducted. All students and members of the Newsholme laboratory were made familiar with this approach!\u00a0 Another principle which he liked to instil in us was:\u00a0 \u201cyou can never prove or disprove a hypothesis:\u00a0 you can only add to the evidence for or against it.\u201d\u00a0 A senior academic colleague from the 1980s recalls \u201cHe was such a stalwart seeker after truth, and possessed an inspiringly independent mind\u201d.<\/p>\n

What is unquestionable is that many scientists, all over the world, have worked on Eric\u2019s novel ideas for years, adding to the evidence for or against the hypotheses.\u00a0 This is true not just of past members of the Newsholme group, who now have their own successful laboratories in the UK, Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia.<\/p>\n

Eric was also a man of integrity and never expected nor received royalties from firms producing the amino acids on which he worked.\u00a0 He did receive research funding from pharmaceutical companies (there are few who do not!) but, true to form, always maintained an intransigent view about independence. \u00a0Eric was once described to me (by an innovator in sports science) as being \u201cthe greatest metabolist this country has ever produced\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 In an earlier appreciation of his work (The Biochemist, 2006) it was said:\u00a0 \u201cThroughout the 1970s and 1980s, the University of Oxford was the base of\u2026.key researchers [who] have shaped our understanding of the regulation of energy metabolism in health and diseases.\u00a0 Hans Krebs, Philip Randle, Derek Williamson and Eric Newsholme all pursued their own research within areas they each considered to be the most important aspects of metabolic regulation\u2026.Of all these great names, Eric arguably has had the most impact at \u2018grassroots\u2019 level\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems fitting to close with Eric\u2019s own words, speaking of his retirement, as part of a message to the inaugural meeting of the revised Metabolic Discussion Group this March:<\/p>\n

\u201c….I find biochemistry and especially Metabolism impossible to neglect, and I am delighted that recently it seems to be close to being restored to a central core of Biochemistry, at least in relation to research related to clinical problems and medicine!\u201d\u00a0 [EAN, 7 March 2011]<\/em><\/p>\n

Eric passed on his enthusiasm for running marathons to his wife, Pauline, who completed even more than he did, including the New York marathon to celebrate her 60th<\/sup> birthday!\u00a0 He is survived by Pauline, whom he met while undertaking his National Service and married in 1959;\u00a0 his son Philip, daughters Glenda and Clare;\u00a0 six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<\/p>\n

[The material on Eric\u2019s publications is reproduced in part from Past Times (by Philip Newsholme, John Challiss and Greg Cooney;\u00a0 published in The Biochemist (2006).\u00a0 I am grateful to Chris Milne, Simon Hunt and Elizabeth Opara for permission to use their tributes, and to Philip Newsholme for commenting on\u00a0 this obituary] <\/em><\/p>\n

Lindy Castell is a \u00a0Senior Research Associate,\u00a0University of Oxford,\u00a0Green Templeton College, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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