Elena Shekhova, PhD
Life Scientist | SciComm
Post about:
🧬 biology
📑 scientific literature review
💻 Rstats
📊 data viz
Aiming to challenge misinformation about diets by building an evidence-based resource called LumiPie (lumipie.com)
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Post about:
🧬 biology
📑 scientific literature review
💻 Rstats
📊 data viz
Aiming to challenge misinformation about diets by building an evidence-based resource called LumiPie (lumipie.com)
📍Denmark
The effect of an acute bout of exercise on circulating vitamin D metabolite concentrations: a randomised crossover study in healthy adultsphysoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract figure legend Thirty-three healthy adults (14 ♀, 41 (15) years, body mass index 26.2 (3.7) kg/m2, V̇O2max${{\dot{V}}_{{{{\mathrm{O}}}_{\mathrm{2}}}{\mathrm{max}}}}$ 36.2 (9.2) ml/kg/min; mea....
Orexin neurons mediate temptation-resistant voluntary exercise - Nature Neuroscienceshorturl.at What makes the brain maintain voluntary exercise despite attractive alternative options such as eating? Tesmer et al. show that orexin/hypocretin neurons are crucial for implementing the underlying va...
Why do eggs in ovaries last for decades? Long-lived proteins may be keywww.science.org If human ovarian proteins show the same staying power, it would be “mind blowing,” experts say
Don't Panic about Lead in Tamponsvajenda.substack.com And do you know how much is in supplements, kale, or tea (to name just a few)
Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Boneswww.ucsf.edu A newly discovered hormone explains why females can maintain bone density during lactation, when calcium is stripped away to make milk. This discovery could one day have applications to treating fract...
Dietary protein from different sources escapes host digestion and is differentially modified by the microbiotashorturl.at bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
How, and why, a journalist tricked news outlets into thinking chocolate makes you thinwww.washingtonpost.com It was unbelievable news. And reporters shouldn't have believed it.