Journal
METABOLITES
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/metabo11100675
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ceramides; sphingolipids; cardiometabolic health; cardiovascular health; metabolism; insulin; physical activity; exercise; cardiorespiratory fitness
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- University Basel Open Access Publication Fund.
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Ceramides can predict cardiometabolic outcomes, and physical activity influences their levels. Regular exercise reduces ceramide content, optimizing cardiometabolic health and reversing altered ceramide profiles.
Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) represent a growing socioeconomic burden and concern for healthcare systems worldwide. Improving patients' metabolic phenotyping in clinical practice will enable clinicians to better tailor prevention and treatment strategy to individual needs. Recently, elevated levels of specific lipid species, known as ceramides, were shown to predict cardiometabolic outcomes beyond traditional biomarkers such as cholesterol. Preliminary data showed that physical activity, a potent, low-cost, and patient-empowering means to reduce CMD-related burden, influences ceramide levels. While a single bout of physical exercise increases circulating and muscular ceramide levels, regular exercise reduces ceramide content. Additionally, several ceramide species have been reported to be negatively associated with cardiorespiratory fitness, which is a potent health marker reflecting training level. Thus, regular exercise could optimize cardiometabolic health, partly by reversing altered ceramide profiles. This short review provides an overview of ceramide metabolism and its role in cardiometabolic health and diseases, before presenting the effects of exercise on ceramides in humans.
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