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An "Exercise" in Cardiac Metabolism.

Stephen C Kolwicz1

  • 1Heart and Muscle Metabolism Laboratory, Health and Exercise Physiology Department, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, United States.

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
|June 23, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Chronic exercise training enhances cardiac fatty acid oxidation and normalizes glycolysis, potentially reversing metabolic dysfunction in stressed hearts. This review explores cardiac metabolic adaptations to exercise, including substrate utilization, amino acids, and ketone bodies.

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Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Metabolic Adaptations
  • Exercise Science

Background:

  • The heart prefers fatty acid oxidation for energy, but pathological hypertrophy shifts metabolism towards glucose via accelerated glycolysis.
  • Chronic lipid overload can lead to a lipotoxic heart phenotype with increased fatty acid oxidation and triglyceride synthesis.
  • Acute exercise alters whole-body metabolism, increasing glucose use and gradually increasing fatty acid metabolism with duration and intensity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the specific metabolic changes in cardiac substrate utilization induced by chronic exercise training.
  • To examine adaptations in amino acid and ketone body metabolism in the heart due to chronic exercise.
  • To discuss challenges and variables in studying exercise training's effects on cardiac metabolism.
Keywords:
cardiac hypertrophyexercise adaptationexercise trainingfatty acid oxidationheart failurelipid metabolismmetabolic remodeling

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Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on chronic exercise training and cardiac metabolism.
  • Analysis of studies focusing on substrate utilization (fatty acids, glucose) in the heart.
  • Examination of adaptations in amino acid and ketone body metabolism.

Main Results:

  • A pattern suggests chronic exercise training enhances cardiac fatty acid oxidation.
  • Evidence indicates normalization of glycolysis in the heart with chronic exercise training.
  • Adaptations in amino acid and ketone body metabolism are increasingly recognized.

Conclusions:

  • Enhanced fatty acid oxidation and normalized glycolysis through chronic exercise may offer a therapeutic strategy for hypertrophied hearts.
  • Understanding these metabolic shifts is crucial for developing interventions against cardiac metabolic diseases.
  • Further research is needed to address variability in exercise training study models and parameters.