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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

      This is such wonderful nonsense, a great example of awful science communication: a) studies were done in flies and mice b) nothing to do with workouts per se c) mostly looked at reversing aging-related muscle decline d) EXERCISE CAN'T BE REPLACED WITH A SUPPLEMENTpic.twitter.com/lTtFiEVidp

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

      There isn't one study this time, the noise seems to have come from this press release from the University of Michigan https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/mm-u-arf010920.php …

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

          Basically, there's a bunch of research done on this group of proteins called Sestrins. They are probably related to exercise in some complex ways

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

          For example, this 2013 paper that looks at Sestrins and how they are related to aging (in flies)pic.twitter.com/Oj0LenQlF8

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

          And if you look at the rest of the lab's work, it's much the same. Fascinating stuff - it sounds like they're pretty cutting-edge in a few areas - but totally unrelated to supplements that can replace exercise https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/jun%20hee.lee.1/bibliography/public/ …pic.twitter.com/w7vg00Zp8R

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

          Even weirder, the scientist behind this research doesn't think that supplementing Sestrins is going to work Instead, it'll probably be a drug that changes how your body produces this protein (that they haven't started developing yet)pic.twitter.com/s19Q3VMQmN

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 13 Jan 2020

          So what we've really got here is a potential treatment (not a supplement) that may one day emerge (not ready for a decade at least) to treat muscle wasting (not replace exercise) Pretty much everything in the headlines was wrong

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