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Significant weight loss can lead to sarcopenia, increasing cardiometabolic disease risk. Physical activity, particularly combined endurance and strength training, can mitigate these risks by stimulating myokine release from skeletal muscle.

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Area of Science:

  • Exercise Physiology
  • Metabolic Health
  • Skeletal Muscle Biology

Background:

  • Obesity treatments effectively reduce weight and cardiometabolic risk, but often overlook the concurrent risk of sarcopenia.
  • Sarcopenic obesity and sarcopenia independently elevate the risk of cardiometabolic diseases.
  • Skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine organ, releasing myokines that counteract sarcopenic obesity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the risk of sarcopenia associated with significant weight loss.
  • To emphasize the role of physical activity and myokine production in mitigating sarcopenic obesity.
  • To propose a phased approach to physical activity for sustainable cardiometabolic risk reduction.

Main Methods:

  • Review of the physiological mechanisms linking obesity, weight loss, sarcopenia, and cardiometabolic disease.
  • Emphasis on the role of skeletal muscle-derived myokines.
  • Proposal of a two-phase physical activity strategy (preparatory and weight loss phases).

Main Results:

  • Significant weight loss, while beneficial for obesity, can induce sarcopenia.
  • Skeletal muscle myokine production, stimulated by physical activity, counteracts sarcopenic obesity.
  • Combined endurance and strength training is effective for initiating myokine production.

Conclusions:

  • A structured physical activity program is crucial for managing sarcopenic obesity and its cardiometabolic complications.
  • Dividing physical activity into preparatory and weight loss phases optimizes sustainable cardiometabolic risk reduction.
  • Understanding skeletal muscle's endocrine function is key to combating obesity-related diseases.