Irisin, a hormone also known as FNDC5, has been linked to many of the positive benefits associated with physical exercise. In the past year, a controversy erupted over possible flaws in the methods ...

Could irisin, a newly discovered and little-known hormone, impact our metabolism? Stylist investigates. More and more people are starting to have conversations about the link between our workout ...

If you need one more reason to motivate yourself to be more physically active, you can add the exercise-induced hormone irisin to your list. In the past two years, scientists have discovered that a ...

BOSTON – Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two major hallmarks of the condition—the generation of amyloid beta ...

Reduction of Alzheimer’s pathology in a petri dish. (Doo Yeon Kim/Massachusetts General Hospital) (CN) — Along with developing the first 3D cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease, a research team ...

Myokines are hormones that communicate via the bloodstream with various organs such as the brain, adipose tissue, liver, bone and the immune system. According to a 2024 review, they are the reason why ...

Researchers say they have found evidence that exercise helps produces a hormone called irisin that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Irisin may enhance neprilysin, which fights the brain-damaging ...

A recent study looks at how moderate-intensity exercise could lower appetite and thus aid weight loss. Image credit: Michal Fludra/NurPhoto/Getty Images. Moderate-intensity exercise appears to have ...

In a recent study published in Neuron, researchers explored the biological mechanisms by which exercise-induced irisin attenuates amyloid-beta (Aβ) pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD, a form of ...

Irisin, a muscle-derived hormone, reduces amyloid beta pathology, a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), in cell models. Researchers say the findings may pave the way for new treatments for AD.

Drugs based on the hormone irisin could help to stave off dementia in physically inactive patients, scientists claim. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...

Medical researchers have used a 3D human neural cell culture model to show that the exercise-induced muscle hormone, irisin, reduces the level of amyloid beta deposits associated with Alzheimer's ...