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Skeletal muscle SIRT3 expression is dynamically regulated by environmental signals: it increases with exercise training, caloric restriction, and fasting, but decreases with high-fat diet consumption.

Your skeletal muscle contains a regulator called SIRT3 that acts as a sensor for your lifestyle. Regular exercise, fasting, or caloric restriction can increase the levels of this protein, which helps coordinate energy metabolism. Conversely, a chronic high-fat diet can decrease these levels. This suggests that maintaining metabolic health involves dynamic adjustments to your diet and activity levels.

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SIRT3 responds dynamically to both exercise and nutritional signals in skeletal muscle to coordinate downstream molecular responses. ... SIRT3 expression increases by fasting and caloric restriction, yet it is decreased by high-fat diet.
Orsolya M Palacios et al. · Aging · 2009

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Strong experimental evidence using multiple mouse models (wild-type, knockout, various diets/exercise protocols) with consistent Western blot and mRNA data.

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Diet and exercise signals regulate SIRT3 and activate AMPK and PGC-1α in skeletal muscle

Orsolya M Palacios et al. · Aging · 2009

DOI 10.18632/aging.100075

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