Endocrine Abstracts

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Regular exercise training has widespread health benefits by positively affecting nearly all organ systems of the body. Human physiology and the adaptive response to acute and chronic exercise training have largely been elucidated in the field of exercise science. This field has used model systems, organisms and has a strong history of human studies. Recently, the effect of exercising at different times of day and the interaction of exercise with circadian rhythm has been of gr...

Our understanding of endocrine adaptation to exercise is underpinned by studies which demonstrated a causative link between low energy availability, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis suppression. These and myriad other effects have been observed in elite athletes, termed Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), whereby negative hormonal and metabolic ramifications of exercise can be mitigated by increasing th...