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Gitsi E, Kokkinos A, Konstantinidou SK, Livadas S, Argyrakopoulou G. The Relationship between Resting Metabolic Rate and Body Composition in People Living with Overweight and Obesity. J Clin Med 2024; 13:5862. [PMID: 39407922 PMCID: PMC11477793 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13195862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2024] [Revised: 09/24/2024] [Accepted: 09/28/2024] [Indexed: 10/20/2024] Open
Abstract
Background/Objectives: Resting metabolic rate (RMR) is an important contributor of energy balance and displays a well-documented relationship with sex, age, race and fat-free mass (FFM) in the existing scientific literature. However, the impact of other body composition components such as fat and liver fat on RMR remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the correlation of RMR with body composition parameters in a sample of patients with overweight and obesity. Methods: Retrospective data of patients with overweight or obesity referred for magnetic resonance imaging of liver fat during the period 2018-2023 were utilized for this study. Demographic and anthropometric data were collected, including body composition parameters (body fat, muscle mass) and RMR measured by bioelectrical impedance and indirect calorimetry, respectively. Results: The final sample included 53 patients (66% male), with a mean age of 48 years (±11.2) and a mean body mass index (ΒΜΙ) of 38.5 kg/m2 (32.7, 44.7). Simple correlation models revealed that RMR was separately correlated with gender, age, BMI, muscle mass, and liver fat (all p < 0.05) but not with fat mass. When multiple regression models were employed, only muscle mass retained its statistically significant influence on RMR, while total and hepatic fat did not significantly affect RMR after controlling for other parameters (gender, age, muscle mass). Conclusions: These findings confirm the known correlation between muscle mass and RMR while highlighting the lack of association between total and hepatic fat and RMR in individuals with overweight and obesity.
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- Evdoxia Gitsi
- Diabetes and Obesity Unit, Athens Medical Center, 15125 Athens, Greece; (S.K.K.); (G.A.)
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- First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine and Diabetes Center, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece;
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- Diabetes and Obesity Unit, Athens Medical Center, 15125 Athens, Greece; (S.K.K.); (G.A.)
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Bagot S, Pélissier L, Pereira B, Chanséaume Bussiere E, Duclos M, Dulloo A, Miles-Chan J, Charlot K, Boirie Y, Thivel D, Isacco L. Weight regain, body composition, and metabolic responses to weight loss in weight cycling athletes: A systematic review and meta-analyses. Obes Rev 2024; 25:e13658. [PMID: 38096860 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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Depending on the nature of their sports, athletes may be engaged in successive weight loss (WL) and regain, conducing to "weight cycling." The aims of this paper were to systematically (and meta-analytically when possible) analyze the post-WL recovery of (i) body weight and (ii) fat mass; fat-free mass; and performance and metabolic responses in weight cycling athletes (18-55 years old, body mass index < 30 kg.m-2 ). MEDLINE, Embase, and SPORTDiscus databases were explored. The quality and risk of bias of the 74 included studies were assessed using the quality assessment tool for quantitative studies. Thirty-two studies were eligible for meta-analyses. Whatever the type of sports or methods used to lose weight, post-WL body weight does not seem affected compared with pre-WL. While similar results are observed for fat-free mass, strength sports athletes (also having longer WL and regain periods) do not seem to fully recover their initial fat mass (ES: -0.39, 95% CI: [-0.77; -0.00], p = 0.048, I2 = 0.0%). Although the methods used by athletes to achieve WL might prevent them from a potential post-WL fat overshooting, further studies are needed to better understand WL episodes consequences on athletes' performance as well as short- and long-term physical, metabolic, and mental health.
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- Sarah Bagot
- EA 3533, Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), CRNH Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- EA 3533, Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), CRNH Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unit of Biostatistics (DRCI), University Hospital Centre Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Sport Medicine and Functional Explorations, University Hospital Centre Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Faculty of Medicine and Paramedical Professions, National Observatory on Physical Activity and Sedentariness (ONAPS), University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- International Research Chair Health in Motion, Clermont Auvergne University Foundation, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Medicine/Physiology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Human Nutrition Unit, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Département Environnements Opérationnels, Unité de Physiologie des Exercices et Activités en Conditions Extrêmes, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
- Exercise Biology Laboratory for Performance and Health (LBEPS), Paris-Saclay University, Evry, France
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- Department of Human Nutrition, University Hospital Centre Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- EA 3533, Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), CRNH Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Faculty of Medicine and Paramedical Professions, National Observatory on Physical Activity and Sedentariness (ONAPS), University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- International Research Chair Health in Motion, Clermont Auvergne University Foundation, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- EA 3533, Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), CRNH Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Topcu A, Yildiz A, Ozkan OF. Effect of L-carnitine on regeneration in experimental partial hepatectomy model in rats. ULUS TRAVMA ACIL CER 2022; 29:9-16. [PMID: 36588511 PMCID: PMC10198347 DOI: 10.14744/tjtes.2022.80460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND In cases of major liver resections or ischemic damage made by the pringle maneuver, agents that increase regeneration or manage ischemic reperfusion injury have become a fascinating topic for researchers. The aim of this study is to see how systemic L-carnitine, an antioxidant with thorough research behind it, affects liver regeneration after major hepatectomy in a rat experimental hepatectomy (two-thirds liver resection) model. METHODS The liver regeneration was evaluated in this study using a rat hepatectomy model developed in the General Surgery Clinic of Health Sciences University, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital's Laboratory. In the experiment, 15 male and 15 female Wistar Albino rats weighing between 250 and 300 g were used in a way that the genders were mixed. In each group, three groups were formed, including male and female rats randomly selected and ten rats. Gcontrol: 70% hepatic resection + intraperitoneal 0.9% saline, GSham: After laparotomy, the abdomen was closed again without any procedure, Gcarnitine: 70% hepatic resection + intraperitoneal 100 mg/kg L Carnitine was applied. It was applied systemically to GSham and Gcarnitine groups and the same procedure was applied to rats for 4 days at the same time without any restrictions. On the 5th day, the abdomen was entered with relaparotomy after sacrification and liver regeneration was evaluated macroscopically and recorded in the forms developed for each subject. Later, liver tissue was resected and microscopically recorded by measuring mitotic index, binuclear hepatocyte, gall duct proliferation, dilation in central veins, and cell proliferation in the parenchyma. The results obtained were evaluated statistically. RESULTS According to the results, the L-carnitine group had a statistically significant increase in overall regeneration scoring after hepatectomy in the histopathological assessment as compared to the control group. CONCLUSION It is thought that L-carnitine, whose many positive effects have been shown experimentally and clinically, has a positive effect on liver regeneration and immunohistochemical researches is required to elucidate this pathway.
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- Ahmet Topcu
- Department of General Surgery, Tokat State Hospital, Tokat-Türkiye
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- Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Türkiye
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- Department of General Surgery, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine, Çanakkale-Türkiye
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Lamboglia CG, Mccurdy AP, Kim YB, Lindeman C, Mangan AJ, Sivak A, Mager D, Spence JC. Investigation of movement-related behaviors and energy compensation in people living with liver disease: A scoping review. J Sports Sci 2022; 40:1299-1307. [PMID: 35766978 DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2022.2065087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The importance of integrated movement behaviours (MB, i.e., physical activity [PA], sedentary behaviour, and sleep) and their interdependence for health has been recently discussed in the literature. The proposition that the amount of time spent in any one of these behaviours may impact the amount of time spent in another is supported by the ActivityStat hypothesis. The aim of this review is to (1) to assess whether individuals with liver disease display MB and/or energy (i.e., total energy expenditure [EE], basal EE, resting EE, and activity EE) compensation throughout the day and/or days; and (2) to examine whether a prescribed PA intervention triggers compensatory responses. Documents were included if they focused on people living with liver disease; analysed MB and/or EE components; were data-based; and were published in English. Fifteen documents were included in the final synthesis. The one finding that addressed research question 1 showed no compensatory response. As for research question 2, most of the findings suggest no compensation effects in response to a PA intervention. There is insufficient evidence to support the ActivityStat hypothesis in people living with liver disease. Further research should be conducted to test this hypothesis using standardized methodological procedures.
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- H.T. Coutts Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Beier UH, Baker DJ, Baur JA. Thermogenic T cells: a cell therapy for obesity? Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2022; 322:C1085-C1094. [PMID: 35476503 PMCID: PMC9169824 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00034.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Obesity is a widespread public health problem with profound medical consequences and its burden is increasing worldwide. Obesity causes significant morbidity and mortality and is associated with conditions including cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. Conventional treatment options are insufficient, or in the case of bariatric surgery, quite invasive. The etiology of obesity is complex, but at its core is often a caloric imbalance with an inability to burn off enough calories to exceed caloric intake, resulting in storage. Interventions such as dieting often lead to decreased resting energy expenditure (REE), with a rebound in weight ("yo-yo effect" or weight cycling). Strategies that increase REE are attractive treatment options. Brown fat tissue engages in nonshivering thermogenesis whereby mitochondrial respiration is uncoupled from ATP production, increasing REE. Medications that replicate brown fat metabolism by mitochondrial uncoupling (e.g., 2,4-dinitrophenol) effectively promote weight loss but are limited by toxicity to a narrow therapeutic range. This review explores the possibility of a new therapeutic approach to engineer autologous T cells into acquiring a thermogenic phenotype like brown fat. Engineered autologous T cells have been used successfully for years in the treatment of cancers (chimeric antigen receptor T cells), and the principle of engineering T cells ex vivo and transferring them back to the patient is established. Engineering T cells to acquire a brown fat-like metabolism could increase REE without the risks of pharmacological mitochondrial uncoupling. These thermogenic T cells may increase basal metabolic rate and are therefore a potentially novel therapeutic strategy for obesity.
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- Ulf H Beier
- Janssen Research and Development, Spring House, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute and Institute of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Dulloo AG. Physiology of weight regain: Lessons from the classic Minnesota Starvation Experiment on human body composition regulation. Obes Rev 2021; 22 Suppl 2:e13189. [PMID: 33543573 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Since its publication in 1950, the Biology of Human Starvation, which describes the classic longitudinal Minnesota Experiment of semistarvation and refeeding in healthy young men, has been the undisputed source of scientific reference about the impact of long-term food deprivation on human physiology and behavior. It has been a guide in developing famine and refugee relief programs for international agencies, in exploring the effects of food deprivation on the cognitive and social functioning of those with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and in gaining insights into metabolic adaptations that undermine obesity therapy and cachexia rehabilitation. In more recent decades, the application of a systems approach to the analysis of its data on longitudinal changes in body composition, basal metabolic rate, and food intake during the 24 weeks of semistarvation and 20 weeks of refeeding has provided rare insights into the multitude of control systems that govern the regulation of body composition during weight regain. These have underscored an internal (autoregulatory) control of lean-fat partitioning (highly sensitive to initial adiposity), which operates during weight loss and weight regain and revealed the existence of feedback loops between changes in body composition and the control of food intake and adaptive thermogenesis for the purpose of accelerating the recovery of fat mass and fat-free mass. This paper highlights the general features and design of this grueling experiment of simulated famine that has allowed the unmasking of fundamental control systems in human body composition autoregulation. The integration of its outcomes constitutes the "famine reactions" that drive the normal physiology of weight regain and obesity relapse and provides a mechanistic "autoregulation-based" explanation of how dieting and weight cycling, transition to sedentarity, or developmental programming may predispose to obesity. It also provides a system physiology framework for research toward elucidating proteinstatic and adipostatic mechanisms that control hunger-appetite and adaptive thermogenesis, with major implications for a better understanding (and management) of cachexia, obesity, and cardiometabolic diseases.
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- Abdul G Dulloo
- Faculty of Science and Medicine, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Cardiovascular System, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Energy Requirements for Older Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Review of the Current Findings and Future Tasks. Nutrients 2021; 13:nu13030753. [PMID: 33652754 PMCID: PMC7996826 DOI: 10.3390/nu13030753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Aging patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have a high risk of frailty and disability. This narrative review summarizes the current findings and future tasks regarding the following issues: (1) the optimum body mass index (BMI) target for patients with T2DM, (2) energy expenditure and requirements of patients with T2DM, and (3) the significance of low-intensity physical activity (LPA) as a key determinant of total energy expenditure (TEE) among the older population. While weight reduction is associated with an improvement in glycemic control, an increased risk of mortality as well as disability related to unhealthy BMI must also be considered, especially in older patients. The optimum BMI range and energy requirements for maintaining a healthy BMI should be identified. Limited evidence has shown that the TEE measured using the doubly labeled water method in patients with T2DM did not differ from that of subjects without diabetes, suggesting that the energy requirement data of subjects without diabetes may be applicable to these populations. LPA is one of the determinants of variability in the energy requirements of older patients with T2DM, and the beneficial effects of increasing LPA on nutritional intake and frailty prevention should be investigated further.
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Corbin KD, Krajmalnik-Brown R, Carnero EA, Bock C, Emerson R, Rittmann BE, Marcus AK, Davis T, Dirks B, Ilhan ZE, Champagne C, Smith SR. Integrative and quantitative bioenergetics: Design of a study to assess the impact of the gut microbiome on host energy balance. Contemp Clin Trials Commun 2020; 19:100646. [PMID: 32875141 PMCID: PMC7451766 DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The literature is replete with clinical studies that characterize the structure, diversity, and function of the gut microbiome and correlate the results to different disease states, including obesity. Whether the microbiome has a direct impact on obesity has not been established. To address this gap, we asked whether the gut microbiome and its bioenergetics quantitatively change host energy balance. This paper describes the design of a randomized crossover clinical trial that combines outpatient feeding with precisely controlled metabolic phenotyping in an inpatient metabolic ward. The target population was healthy, weight-stable individuals, age 18-45 and with a body mass index ≤30 kg/m2. Our primary objective was to determine within-participant differences in energy balance after consuming a control Western Diet versus a Microbiome Enhancer Diet intervention specifically designed to optimize the gut microbiome for positive impacts on host energy balance. We assessed the complete energy-balance equation via whole-room calorimetry, quantified energy intake, fecal energy losses, and methane production. We implemented conditions of tight weight stability and balance between metabolizable energy intake and predicted energy expenditure. We explored key factors that modulate the balance between host and microbial nutrient accessibility by measuring enteroendocrine hormone profiles, appetite/satiety, gut transit and gastric emptying. By integrating these clinical measurements with future bioreactor experiments, gut microbial ecology analysis, and mathematical modeling, our goal is to describe initial cause-and-effect mechanisms of gut microbiome metabolism on host energy balance. Our innovative methods will enable subsequent studies on the interacting roles of diet, the gut microbiome, and human physiology. CLINICALTRIALSGOV IDENTIFIER NCT02939703. The present study reference can be found here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02939703.
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Key Words
- BMI, body mass index
- Bioenergetics
- COD, chemical oxygen demand
- Calorimeter
- Chemical oxygen demand
- DEXA, dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
- EB, energy balance
- EE, energy expenditure
- EI, energy intake
- Energy balance
- MFC, mass flow controller
- Microbiome
- NIST, national institute of standards technology
- PEG, polyethylene glycol
- RMR, resting metabolic rate
- RQ, respiratory quotient
- SCFA, short chain fatty acid
- SEE, sleep energy expenditure
- TDEE, total daily energy expenditure
- TEF, thermic effect of food
- VAS, visual analog scale
- VCH4, volume of methane produced
- VCO2, volume of carbon dioxide produced
- VO2, volume of oxygen consume
- npRQ, non-protein RQ
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- Karen D. Corbin
- AdventHealth, Translational Research Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- AdventHealth, Translational Research Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
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- AdventHealth, Translational Research Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
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- AdventHealth, Translational Research Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Micalis Institute, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- AdventHealth, Translational Research Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
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