Sentences with phrase «active organs»

Your brain is your most metabolically active organ.

«The liver is one of the most busy, active organs in the body,» Wang said, so the healthy liver already needs a lot of energy.

Losing a few pounds of tissue from your most active organs (as happens with intentional calorie restriction) can lower metabolic rate by a large factor even if there appears to be no loss of muscle mass.

Compared to the other organs, the liver is immunologically a very active organ, so it is capable of regulating the immune responses against itself, said lead author Timucin Taner, M.D., Ph.D., a transplant surgeon at Mayo Clinic.

The kidney is a biochemically active organ responsible for filtering many harmful toxins from the body, and therefore it make sense to investigate the effects of dietary intake, including carcinogens, on kidney cancer risk, said Melkonian.

Depending upon how metabolically active the organ is, there will be varying numbers of mitochondria in each cell.

But it now appears that EAT is a metabolically active organ, releasing proteins that may trigger the fibrosis that causes a-fib.

«Bone is more than a hard mineral composite, it is an active organ that constantly remodels.

They exist in greater amounts in active organs and tissues, like the muscles, heart and brain.

The liver and brain are two metabolically active organs that are under constant attack from disease promoting free radicals.

The trillions of beneficial bacteria inside the gut comprise a metabolically active organ — the largest immune organ in the body — and are important for a variety of essential functions, including regulating digestion, producing and metabolizing vitamins and other trace nutrients, and protecting the body from infection.