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1Center for Biological Clocks Research, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Cell Metabolism
|September 6, 2023
Abstract:
Promoting healthy aging is contingent on understanding the underlying mechanisms for the age-associated decline in metabolic physiology. Through developing a novel concept of "metabolic elasticity" to evaluate metabolic adaptability in response to cyclical changes in energy balance, Zhou et al. present an impactful gauge of metabolic health that is particularly relevant to aging.
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