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From the article: “If further evidence of the importance of healthy mitochondria continues to emerge, drugs that focus on regulating cellular energy production
by sjclemmy 8y ago
From the article: “If further evidence of the importance of healthy mitochondria continues to emerge, drugs that focus on regulating cellular energy production instead could become a new line of defense for psychiatric and biological disorders.”
I know enough exercise helps regulate my mood. Seems like there’s a link there somewhere.
- bordercases 8y agoTotal bodily stress causes such a large cascade of changes that you almost learn nothing by finding a connection.
- dredmorbius 8y agoSorry? Could you clarify?
- tomrod 8y agoNot OP, but my interpretation: exercise isn't confined to mentally or socially induced stress, and perhaps the body tolerates it better.
- bordercases 8y ago"Oh here's a new biochemical path connected to exercise." "Oh sweet I guess I should exercise then." Except the basis for the decision to exercise or not has already been confirmed in inumerous ways on these grounds, and it is redundant since we should expect massive stress of any sort (exercise included) to result in large cascading changes in the body. Or the other way around, the body is so intricate that any individual biochemical pathway is unlikely to play a significant role in the whole, and so we should explain things in terms of the whole to actually learn something. The OP mentioned mood. But there are a lot of unnoticed alternative pathways at play here, why wouldn't they also have a connection to mood? Maybe if you were in particular seeking a way to mimic exercise with drugs this kind of thing becomes more useful.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThough, conversely, if we can strongly associate a given stimulus or process with a respose, regardless of understanding the specific pathway(s), is that not useful information? It was the basis of much practical knowledge for most of history.