Jose Areta
jlareta.bsky.social
Jose Areta
@jlareta.bsky.social
Exercise Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. Associate Professor LJMUSportSci. Views are my own. 4.97 stars ABnB rating, 4.92 in Uber! trying for 4 in REF.
Excited to share that our new paper is out in The FASEB Journal after years in the making! 🎉
“Endocrine, Metabolic, and Skeletal Muscle Proteomic Responses During Energy Deficit With Concomitant Aerobic Exercise in Humans.”

faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...
Endocrine, Metabolic, and Skeletal Muscle Proteomic Responses During Energy Deficit With Concomitant Aerobic Exercise in Humans
After consecutive 5-day periods of energy balance and energy deficit (ED, 78% reduced energy availability—EA) including aerobic exercise, trained males experienced reduced fat and fat-free mass, alon...
faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What happens to your muscles when you lose weight and exercise?

Our new piece in @uk.theconversation.com explains how combining an energy deficit with training may have a positive effect on skeletal muscle

🔗 theconversation.com/could-exerci...

#MuscleHealth #ExerciseScience #WeightLoss #Research
Could exercising while losing weight preserve your muscles and help keep them ‘young’?
A new study has highlighted how remarkably resilient human muscle is.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are you interested in the REDs debate?

Our 'Does REDs exist?' viewpoint has been criticised

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To which we have replied

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please read both critically and draw your own conclusions
Limited Empirical Support for Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) Syndrome - Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine -
link.springer.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Really interesting viewpoint on the evolution of research ideas and the importance of openness to guide discovery:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Openness guides discovery - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Openness guides discovery
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Jose Areta
Exciting postdoc opportunity to come and join us at the Institute of Sport.
March 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Nice to see our work showcased in
@outsidemag.bsky.social by Alex Hutchinson with an invitation to reflect on the important, but likely inflated, role of energy deficit in health and performance.

www.outsideonline.com/health/train...
The Truth About Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport
The risks of training while depleted are finally getting lots of attention—maybe too much
www.outsideonline.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our article got ranked 3rd in the IJSNEM paper of the year 2024! Very happy to see our work on the podium
‼️IJSNEM PAPER OF THE YEAR 2024‼️

Drumroll please…🥁🥁🥁

🥉In third place, we have Areta et al with their fantastic paper titled ‘Energetics of a World-Tour Female Road Cyclist During a Multistage Race (Tour de France Femmes)’🚴🏻‍♀️

🔗https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.2023-0275
January 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Delighted to this see this work published in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing super high temporal and spatial resolution of muscle glycogen dynamics using new MRI technology.

Fascinating to see very heterogenous and complex dynamics of glycogen use and resynthesis.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In vivo imaging of glycogen in human muscle - Nature Communications
The non-invasive spatial measurement of glycogen in humans has been challenging due to a lack of sensitive approaches. Here, the authors characterize regional glycogen dynamics in human muscle under e...
www.nature.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Are you interested in REDs and low energy availability?

Check out our latest work 'Does REDs exist?', which challenges the idea that low energy availability is the only etiological factor for the syndrome, and brings forward other possible explanations

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) Syndrome Exist? - Sports Medicine
Relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) is a widely adopted model, originally proposed by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) expert panel in 2014 and recently updated in an IOC 2023 consensus...
link.springer.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Our study 'Energetics of a World-Tour Female Road Cyclist During a Multistage Race (Tour de France Femmes)' published at @IJSNEMJournal got shortlisted for paper of the year 2024!!!

If you liked the paper, we need your support! give us a vote here:

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IJSNEM Paper of the Year 2024
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December 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM