Symposium To Look At Genetic Basis Of Exercise

A waste.

"'Adaptation to exercise' is a familiar phenomenon, even if the phrase is not: A sedentary person takes up jogging and can barely make it around the block. After jogging regularly for a few weeks, the person can jog a mile, then two, then three. With regular exercise, the body adapts, becoming fitter and more efficient. The heart can pump more blood, delivering more oxygen to the muscles. The muscles get stronger, and so on.

There are individual differences in the ability to adapt to exercise."

So what?

In our lifetimes it will make zero difference in the incidence of overweight/obesity-related illnesses.

If they really wanted to make a difference, they would study the genetics of stupid and adaptation to learning.

Fixing stupid and the apparent inability to learn would go a much longer way to solving many problems.

And how tough will all this be to decipher?

"So far, scientists have identified about 200 genes that play a role in the body's ability to adapt to exercise...

While this research is exciting, it has its limitations, Dr. Olfert said. Many genes play a role in exercise adaptation, most of these genes probably have a minor effect, and the way these genes work and interact with each other is quite complicated."

Very.

Don't expect any of this to make an iota of difference in your life or the lives of your kids.

Except for the money that will be wasted in pursuing this garbage.