{"id":299215,"date":"2025-10-13T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:14:11","slug":"fathers-can-pass-on-benefits-of-exercise-to-children-chinese-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299215\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers can pass on benefits of exercise to children, Chinese study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese scientists<\/a> have found that the benefits of exercise can be inherited across generations, with a father\u2019s level of activity influencing his children\u2019s health and endurance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team found that mice could pass on the benefits of exercise \u2013 including improved muscle mass, lower body fat and stronger bones \u2013 through the genes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By contrast, the offspring of inactive mice performed worse in running and strength tests.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe demonstrate that offspring sired by exercise-trained fathers display intrinsic exercise adaptations and improved metabolic parameters compared with those sired by sedentary fathers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPaternal exercise provides a cost-effective route to improve offspring health,\u201d the team wrote in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism on October 6.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team, led by researchers from Nanjing University and Nanjing Medical University, also found that when they injected sperm microRNAs from exercised mice into normal fertilised eggs, the offspring reproduced traits that derived from exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have found that the benefits of exercise can be inherited across generations, with a father\u2019s level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[152414,99970,74,152413,5564,1728,1198,10265,210,10266,152416,56788,10943,152415,152417,132005,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-299215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-army-engineering-university-of-the-peoples-liberation-army","9":"tag-cell-metabolism","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-dark-matters-newsletter","12":"tag-dna","13":"tag-exercise","14":"tag-fitness","15":"tag-genes","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-mice","18":"tag-nanjing-medical-university","19":"tag-nanjing-university","20":"tag-obesity","21":"tag-offspring","22":"tag-sperm-micrornas","23":"tag-treadmill","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365391099616615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}