Metabolic Responses to Exercise and Recovery

Exercise benefits health through diverse metabolic processes and is central to healthy ageing. However, intense exercise also challenges the body, causing cellular damage that must be repaired. This means that we need to identify the level of exercise that can optimise health, and this level might potentially differ by age and sex. Our research aims to tackle this question, by studying the metabolic responses of the body both to exercise and during the subsequent recovery in 48 healthy and active participants between the ages of 8-10, 23-27 and 53-57. Participants will complete an inclusion questionnaire and, if eligible, be invited to visit the exercise laboratory 4-5-hours. We will collect questionnaire data and body measurements before participants undertake exercise on a treadmill. Biological samples (blood from adults only and saliva from everyone) will be collected at three time points (before, right after and one hour after exercise).