metabolism

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The study found that these practices activated natural pathways involved in brain flexibility, metabolism, immune function, and pain relief.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

However, when researchers treated these cells with a compound that boosts metabolism, the negative effects were prevented.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

In animal models, it improved energy metabolism and extended lifespan.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

She wrote a letter to Kennedy in November urging the FDA to use enforcement discretion for certain peptides that she said were “critical to processes” such as metabolism, immune response and tissue repair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

If sugar was sugar was sugar—if the metabolism of lactose was no different from that of glucose—then one might have expected bacteria fed on the glucose/lactose mix to exhibit the same smooth arc of growth.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee