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The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-metabolism_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-25T01-34-20Z-R2`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-25.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `metabolism biomarker effects aging`\n- `metabolism biomarker effects older adults`\n- `metabolism biomarker effects randomized controlled trial`\n- `metabolism aging`\n- `metabolism older adults`\n- `metabolism randomized controlled trial`\n- `biomarker aging`\n- `biomarker older adults`\n- `biomarker randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses metabolism biomarker effects.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 390 records in the receipt-candidate union, 150 were classified as source candidates and 15 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 390 |\n| Classified source candidates | 150 |\n| No extractable claims | 23 |\n| None-only claim binding | 1 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 16 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 8 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 1 |\n| Admitted final sources | 15 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nRisk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, frailty, immune and inflammation, longevity, mechanism); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Results\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=6; claims=230 | no extracted directional signal in 6/6 sources | 1 direct; 5 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Longevity | n=4; claims=98 | no extracted directional signal in 3/4 sources | 4 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Cardiometabolic | n=1; claims=52 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Deficiency Prevalence | n=1; claims=63 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Frailty | n=1; claims=20 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=1; claims=24 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 direct | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Mechanism | n=1; claims=4 | no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources | 1 mechanistic | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\n6 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=6. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=5.\n\n### Longevity Outcomes\n\n4 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=3, unclear=1. Directness coding: indirect=4.\n\n### Cardiometabolic Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\n### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\n### Frailty Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.\n\n### Immune Inflammation Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: direct=1.\n\n### Mechanism Outcomes\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1.\n\n## Limitations\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nA first limitation concerns corpus scope. Studies such as Gordon-Dseagu 2015 and Lei 2023 provide longitudinal mortality associations, but they are observational and cannot substitute for a randomized evaluation. The headline inferences about the metabolism–biomarker–anti-aging case are therefore drawn from indirect, cross-sectional, or short-term mechanistic data, and any extension to disease prevention or lifespan in healthy adults is not supported by the admitted evidence. The four FDA-grade, hard-endpoint RCTs that would normally anchor such a synthesis are absent from this corpus.\n\nA second limitation is single-trial generalization risk. Findings anchored on a single trial cannot be replicated within this corpus, and the absence of a corroborating second study is itself a limitation. Citing such findings as evidence for a synthesis-level claim is not warranted.\n\nA third limitation concerns population specificity. Younger adults, healthy community-dwelling older adults, and racial or geographic groups not represented in these cohorts are absent. The synthesis cannot be generalized to populations outside the enrolled ones, and the WHO 2000 overweight (25 kg/m²) and obesity (30 kg/m²) thresholds — used here only as contextual anchors for the enrolled cohorts — do not transfer to groups with different body-composition norms or dietary backgrounds.\n\nA fourth limitation is endpoint scope. The admitted sources overwhelmingly report biomarker or surrogate endpoints, which carry known validity concerns as proxies for hard clinical outcomes (Ioannidis 2005). For example, Pacella 2025 reports reductions in LDL-C, fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, and HOMA-IR, and Ma 2022 reports resveratrol effects on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function; the ADA 2024 HbA1c targets of 7% (general adults) and 6.5% (younger / lower-risk patients) appear in the corpus only as contextual thresholds, not as achieved outcomes. None of the sources reports adjudicated cardiovascular events, incident dementia, fractures, or all-cause mortality as a randomized comparison. Surrogate-endpoint results dominate the evidence base, and the inference that biomarker improvement will translate into reduced hard-outcome incidence in this population is not supported by any trial in the corpus.\n\nA fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. The 0.8 m/s gait-speed threshold (Studenski 2011), the 0.1 m/s substantial-improvement marker (Perera 2006), and the EWGSOP2 grip-strength sarcopenia cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019) appear in the corpus only as analytical anchors; the trials themselves did not test whether modifying a metabolism biomarker shifts any of these functional endpoints. Translational inference from mechanistic source to clinical recommendation is therefore not warranted by the admitted evidence.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor metabolism biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 15 included sources on Metabolism Biomarker Effects across 7 outcome classes and 26 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 15 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Metabolism shows a context-dependent profile. Null findings dominate: contextual other, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Metabolism anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nThe strongest unresolved contrast is the mechanism vs clinical between Lei 2023 and Pacella 2025 on longevity (severity 3/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nThis synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| longevity | 0 | 4 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| cardiometabolic | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| frailty | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| mechanism | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 1 | 5 | null | replication gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 1 | 0 | null | replication gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | longevity: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 4 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P2 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P3 | frailty: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P4 | mechanism: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P5 | deficiency prevalence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Metabolism Biomarker Effects should target the **longevity** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Ma 2022; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=null.\n- Pacella 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- CarrilloArango 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.073.\n- Gordon 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Zahed 2021; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=null.\n- Lei 2023; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=null.\n- Lustgarten 2014; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=cardiometabolic; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.05.\n- Kemna 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.061.\n- Gordon-Dseagu 2015; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear.\n- Ma 2024; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=frailty; direction=null.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- Ma 2022: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=24.\n- Pacella 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=8.\n- CarrilloArango 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=89.\n- Gordon 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=66.\n- Zahed 2021: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=63.\n- Lei 2023: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=58.\n- Lustgarten 2014: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=52.\n- Kemna 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=50.\n- Gordon-Dseagu 2015: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=34.\n- Ma 2024: outcome=frailty; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=20.\n- Miller 2021: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=16.\n- Morvaridzadeh 2024: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=4.\n- Chen 2025: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=2.\n- Johnson 2019: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=1.\n- Fitzpatrick 2020: outcome=mechanism; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=4.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\n- Severity 3 indirectness gap: Gordon 2025 vs Pacella 2025; Pacella 2025 (direct, A1) vs Gordon 2025 (indirect) on contextual other — direct vs indirect must be kept separate\n- Severity 3 indirectness gap: Pacella 2025 vs Kemna 2025; Pacella 2025 (direct, A1) vs Kemna 2025 (indirect) on contextual other — direct vs indirect must be kept separate\n- Severity 3 indirectness gap: Pacella 2025 vs CarrilloArango 2025; Pacella 2025 (direct, A1) vs CarrilloArango 2025 (indirect) on contextual other — direct vs indirect must be kept separate\n- Severity 3 indirectness gap: Pacella 2025 vs Johnson 2019; Pacella 2025 (direct, A1) vs Johnson 2019 (indirect) on contextual other — direct vs indirect must be kept separate\n- Severity 3 indirectness gap: Pacella 2025 vs Miller 2021; Pacella 2025 (direct, A1) vs Miller 2021 (indirect) on contextual other — direct vs indirect must be kept separate\n- Severity 3 mechanism vs clinical: Lei 2023 vs Pacella 2025; Pacella 2025 (direct, contextual other) vs Lei 2023 (indirect, longevity) — cross-domain: clinical evidence on one outcome must not be fused with mechanistic / preclinical evidence on a different outcome\n- Severity 3 mechanism vs clinical: Lei 2023 vs Ma 2022; Ma 2022 (direct, immune inflammation) vs Lei 2023 (indirect, longevity) — cross-domain: clinical evidence on one outcome must not be fused with mechanistic / preclinical evidence on a different outcome\n- Severity 3 mechanism vs clinical: Morvaridzadeh 2024 vs Pacella 2025; Pacella 2025 (direct, contextual other) vs Morvaridzadeh 2024 (indirect, longevity) — cross-domain: clinical evidence on one outcome must not be fused with mechanistic / preclinical evidence on a different outcome\n\n## References\n\n- **CarrilloArango 2025.** _Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight._ Experimental Physiology, 2025. DOI: 10.1113/EP093162. PMID: 41379629.\n- **Gordon 2025.** _Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction._ BMC Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8. PMID: 40717068.\n- **Zahed 2021.** _Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults._ Scientific Reports, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8. PMID: 34226613.\n- **Lei 2023.** _The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey._ JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2023. DOI: 10.2196/46385. PMID: 37934562.\n- **Lustgarten 2014.** _Metabolites related to gut bacterial metabolism, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha activation, and insulin sensitivity are associated with physical function in functionally-limited older adults._ Aging Cell, 2014. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12251. PMID: 25041144.\n- **Kemna 2025.** _Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study._ Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/alz.70984. PMID: 41376120.\n- **Gordon-Dseagu 2015.** _Impaired Glucose Metabolism among Those with and without Diagnosed Diabetes and Mortality: A Cohort Study Using Health Survey for England Data._ PLoS ONE, 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119882. PMID: 25785731.\n- **Ma 2022.** _Effects of resveratrol therapy on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled clinical trial protocol._ Medicine, 2022. DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000030049. PMID: 35960095.\n- **Ma 2024.** _Association of serum iron metabolism with muscle mass and frailty in older adults: A cross-sectional study of community-dwelling older adults._ Medicine, 2024. DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000039348. PMID: 39151527.\n- **Miller 2021.** _Chlorpyrifos Disrupts Acetylcholine Metabolism Across Model Blood-Brain Barrier._ Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.622175. PMID: 34513802.\n- **Pacella 2025.** _Dual modulation of lipid and glucose metabolism by a nutraceutical combination in patients at cardiometabolic risk: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial._ Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12933-025-02920-4. PMID: 41044582.\n- **Morvaridzadeh 2024.** _High-Density Lipoprotein Metabolism and Function in Cardiovascular Diseases: What about Aging and Diet Effects?._ Nutrients, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/nu16050653. PMID: 38474781.\n- **Fitzpatrick 2020.** _2-Hydroxyglutarate Metabolism Is Altered in an in vivo Model of LPS Induced Endotoxemia._ Frontiers in Physiology, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00147. PMID: 32194434.\n- **Chen 2025.** _Identification of arachidonic acid metabolism-related diagnostic markers in heart failure based on bioinformatics analysis and machine learning._ Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1625064. PMID: 41472876.\n- **Johnson 2019.** _The role of lipid metabolism in aging, lifespan regulation, and age‐related disease._ Aging Cell, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/acel.13048. PMID: 31560163.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical reference values and methodological references cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*\n\n- **Studenski 2011.** _Studenski S, Perera S, Patel K, et al. Gait speed and survival in older adults. 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Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_5","claim":"The conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_6","claim":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_7","claim":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. 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Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_12","claim":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_13","claim":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=6; claims=230 | no extracted directional signal in 6/6 sources | 1 direct; 5 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. 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Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. 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Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_14","claim":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_23","claim":"A first limitation concerns corpus scope. Studies such as Gordon-Dseagu 2015 and Lei 2023 provide longitudinal mortality associations, but they are observational and cannot substitute for a randomized evaluation. The headline inferences about the metabolism–biomarker–anti-aging case are therefore drawn from indirect, cross-sectional, or short-term mechanistic data, and any extension to disease prevention or lifespan in healthy adults is not supported by the admitted evidence. The four FDA-grade, hard-endpoint RCTs that would normally anchor such a synthesis are absent from this corpus.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_24","claim":"A second limitation is single-trial generalization risk. Findings anchored on a single trial cannot be replicated within this corpus, and the absence of a corroborating second study is itself a limitation. Citing such findings as evidence for a synthesis-level claim is not warranted.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_25","claim":"A fourth limitation is endpoint scope. The admitted sources overwhelmingly report biomarker or surrogate endpoints, which carry known validity concerns as proxies for hard clinical outcomes (Ioannidis 2005). For example, Pacella 2025 reports reductions in LDL-C, fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, and HOMA-IR, and Ma 2022 reports resveratrol effects on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function; the ADA 2024 HbA1c targets of 7% (general adults) and 6.5% (younger / lower-risk patients) appear in the corpus only as contextual thresholds, not as achieved outcomes. None of the sources reports adjudicated cardiovascular events, incident dementia, fractures, or all-cause mortality as a randomized comparison. Surrogate-endpoint results dominate the evidence base, and the inference that biomarker improvement will translate into reduced hard-outcome incidence in this population is not supported by any trial in the corpus.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_6","study":"Effects of resveratrol therapy on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled clinical trial protocol","doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000030049","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000030049","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Ma 2022","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is a spectrum of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia and shows a growing global public health problem in the elderly. Resveratrol presents antiaging, anti-inflammatory, antitumor antioxidant, and cardioprotective activities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ameliorative effects of resveratrol on blood glucose, insulin metabolism, lipid profile, renal function, inflammation, and nutrient sensing systems in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS: The study is a single-blind, parallel-group, randomized controlled clinical trial consisting of a 6-month treatment period. A total of 472 elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were enrolled, and included participants will be randomized into 2 groups: resveratrol (n = 242) and placebo (n = 230). The clinical efficacy and changes in clinical parameters in each group will be measured at the indicated time. Clinical parameters included blood glucose, insulin resistance index, blood lipid index, proinflammatory cytokines, renal function, and nutrient sensing systems."},{"source_id":"source_9","study":"Dual modulation of lipid and glucose metabolism by a nutraceutical combination in patients at cardiometabolic risk: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial","doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-02920-4","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-02920-4","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Pacella 2025","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR), a key enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis, has beneficial effects on lipid metabolism and blood pressure (BP), but detrimental consequences on glycemia. Nutraceuticals (NUTs) containing both Monacolin K (MK) and Morus alba have been shown to be more effective in lowering lipids compared to NUT formulations containing only MK. However, the effects of these NUTs on glucose homeostasis have not been fully determined. METHODS: To evaluate the association between LDL-C-lowering therapy and glycemia in patients receiving NUT combinations with or without Morus alba, we analyzed data from a prospective, randomized, active-treatment controlled trial (NCT02898805), which enrolled 359 patients to compare the effects of a NUT combination containing MK alone (Formulation 1, F1; n = 170) versus one containing MK and Morus alba (Formulation 1, F2; n = 189). RESULTS: Participants in the two treatment arms (F1 vs. F2) were comparable in terms of sex, age, metabolic parameters, and BP."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_26","claim":"A fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. The 0.8 m/s gait-speed threshold (Studenski 2011), the 0.1 m/s substantial-improvement marker (Perera 2006), and the EWGSOP2 grip-strength sarcopenia cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019) appear in the corpus only as analytical anchors; the trials themselves did not test whether modifying a metabolism biomarker shifts any of these functional endpoints. Translational inference from mechanistic source to clinical recommendation is therefore not warranted by the admitted evidence.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_27","claim":"For metabolism biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min.","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_28","claim":"This synthesis maps 15 included sources on Metabolism Biomarker Effects across 7 outcome classes and 26 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. 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ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_29","claim":"Across 15 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Metabolism shows a context-dependent profile. Null findings dominate: contextual other, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Metabolism anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. 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However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]}]}},{"name":"claim_graph.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","content_hash":"sha256:13c58af30aa80fb336d092becabe6aa67c89237fa62be8bc14d064dc40f596d0","nodes":[{"id":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","type":"publication","title":"Hypothesis-Generating Brief: Metabolism Biomarker Effects — full paper"},{"id":"claim_1","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on metabolism biomarker effects across 15 accepted source papers and 491 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains 2 direct clinical sources, 12 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 26 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. No single positive outcome class dominates the retained corpus; null signals cluster in the contextual adjacent evidence, longevity and deficiency prevalence outcome classes, and negative signals cluster in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on metabolism biomarker effects across 15 accepted source papers and 491 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains 2 direct clinical sources, 12 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 26 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"No single positive outcome class dominates the retained corpus; null signals cluster in the contextual adjacent evidence, longevity and deficiency prevalence outcome classes, and negative signals cluster in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-metabolism_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-25T01-34-20Z-R2`."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"Risk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, frailty, immune and inflammation, longevity, mechanism); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=6; claims=230 | no extracted directional signal in 6/6 sources | 1 direct; 5 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"6 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=6. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=5."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"4 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=3, unclear=1. Directness coding: indirect=4."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: direct=1."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"A first limitation concerns corpus scope. Studies such as Gordon-Dseagu 2015 and Lei 2023 provide longitudinal mortality associations, but they are observational and cannot substitute for a randomized evaluation. The headline inferences about the metabolism–biomarker–anti-aging case are therefore drawn from indirect, cross-sectional, or short-term mechanistic data, and any extension to disease prevention or lifespan in healthy adults is not supported by the admitted evidence. The four FDA-grade, hard-endpoint RCTs that would normally anchor such a synthesis are absent from this corpus."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"A second limitation is single-trial generalization risk. Findings anchored on a single trial cannot be replicated within this corpus, and the absence of a corroborating second study is itself a limitation. Citing such findings as evidence for a synthesis-level claim is not warranted."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"A fourth limitation is endpoint scope. The admitted sources overwhelmingly report biomarker or surrogate endpoints, which carry known validity concerns as proxies for hard clinical outcomes (Ioannidis 2005). For example, Pacella 2025 reports reductions in LDL-C, fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, and HOMA-IR, and Ma 2022 reports resveratrol effects on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function; the ADA 2024 HbA1c targets of 7% (general adults) and 6.5% (younger / lower-risk patients) appear in the corpus only as contextual thresholds, not as achieved outcomes. None of the sources reports adjudicated cardiovascular events, incident dementia, fractures, or all-cause mortality as a randomized comparison. Surrogate-endpoint results dominate the evidence base, and the inference that biomarker improvement will translate into reduced hard-outcome incidence in this population is not supported by any trial in the corpus."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"A fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. The 0.8 m/s gait-speed threshold (Studenski 2011), the 0.1 m/s substantial-improvement marker (Perera 2006), and the EWGSOP2 grip-strength sarcopenia cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019) appear in the corpus only as analytical anchors; the trials themselves did not test whether modifying a metabolism biomarker shifts any of these functional endpoints. Translational inference from mechanistic source to clinical recommendation is therefore not warranted by the admitted evidence."},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"For metabolism biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 15 included sources on Metabolism Biomarker Effects across 7 outcome classes and 26 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"Across 15 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Metabolism shows a context-dependent profile. Null findings dominate: contextual other, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Metabolism anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Acute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight","year":2025,"doi":"10.1113/EP093162","url":"https://doi.org/10.1113/EP093162","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"CarrilloArango 2025","excerpt":"We investigated the acute metabolic effects of two velocity-based resistance training (RT) protocols, differing in intra-set velocity loss (VL) thresholds, on postprandial substrate oxidation and glycaemic responses following a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test in individuals with excess body weight. A single-group, randomized, cross-over design was used, in which each participant completed three experimental conditions in random order: (1) control (rest); (2) RT with 20% velocity loss (VL20); and (3) RT with 40% velocity loss (VL40). Twenty-four participants (50% female; median body mass index 30.2 kg m -2 , interquartile range 27.9-34.1 kg m -2 ) were included in the final analysis. Each RT session consisted of bilateral leg-press exercises at 55%-65% of one-repetition maximum performed in four sets with 3 min rest intervals, while monitoring repetition velocity. Baseline measurements were performed in the fasted state (1012 h) with participants in the supine position for 30 min, after the oral glucose load at 60 min, and during the experimental conditions at 120, 180, and 240 min."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04276-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The role of one-carbon metabolism and related B-vitamins in cognitive function in ageing is well-documented, particularly for folate and vitamin B12, with vitamin B6 and riboflavin receiving much less attention. ApoE is a well-established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the role of B-vitamins in modifying this risk remains largely unexplored. We examined associations between folate, B12, B6, riboflavin, and cognitive function in older adults, including interactions with the ApoE ε4 genotype. METHODS: Community-dwelling older adults (≥ 60 years) from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture (TUDA) study were stratified as ApoE ε4 carriers (ε3/ε4 and ε4/ε4 genotypes; n = 1205) or non-ε4 carriers (n = 3348). Cognitive function was assessed using the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the Frontal Assessment Battery, and the Mini-Mental State Examination."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults","year":2021,"doi":"10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93214-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zahed 2021","excerpt":"Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation including tryptophan metabolism, and endothelial and renal function among cancer-free older adults. We analyzed 5167 cancer-free controls aged 40-80 years from 20 cohorts in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). Centralized biochemical analyses of 40 biomarkers in plasma or serum were performed. We fit multivariable linear mixed effects models to quantify variation in standardized biomarker log-concentrations across four factors: age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (BMI). Differences in most biomarkers across most factors were small, with 93% (186/200) of analyses showing an estimated difference lower than 0.25 standard-deviations, although most were statistically significant due to large sample size. The largest difference was for creatinine by sex, which was - 0.91 standard-deviations lower in women than men (95%CI - 0.98; - 0.84). The largest difference by age was for total cysteine (0."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey","year":2023,"doi":"10.2196/46385","url":"https://doi.org/10.2196/46385","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lei 2023","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep is an important physiological behavior in humans that is associated with the occurrence and development of various diseases. However, the association of sleep duration with health-related outcomes, including obesity-related factors, musculoskeletal diseases, and mortality because of different causes, has not been systematically reported. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to systematically investigate the effect of sleep duration on health-related outcomes. METHODS: Overall, 54,664 participants with sleep information from 8 survey cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2020) were included in the analysis. Health-related outcomes comprised obesity-related outcomes (ie, BMI, obesity, waist circumference, and abdominal obesity), metabolism-related outcomes (ie, uric acid, hyperuricemia, and bone mineral density [BMD]), musculoskeletal diseases (ie, osteoarthritis [OA] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]), and mortality because of different causes."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/alz.70984","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kemna 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Impaired cerebral glucose metabolism is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lactate is an alternative brain fuel; however, whole-body lactate metabolism has not been measured in AD. METHODS: The Lactate for Energy and Neurocognition Trial (NCT05207397) was a single-arm trial that enrolled 24 cognitively healthy (CH) older adults and 12 cognitively impaired (CI) participants. Subjects underwent a stable isotope lactate infusion to evaluate lactate metabolism, cognitive testing, and blood biomarker analyses. pTau217, brain-derived tau (BD-tau), pTau181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), total tau, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were analyzed by Simoa HD-X (Quanterix). RESULTS: Lactate metabolic clearance rate did not differ between CH and CI subjects (p = 0.988). After infusion, global cognition was improved (p < 0.001) and plasma pTau217 (-33.8%, p < 0.001), BD-tau (-32.6%, p < 0.001), pTau181 (-21.4%, p < 0.001), GFAP (-39.7%, p < 0.001), and NfL (-19.5%, p < 0.001) were reduced. CONCLUSIONS: Lactate turnover was not different between diagnosis groups."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Effects of resveratrol therapy on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled clinical trial protocol","year":2022,"doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000030049","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000030049","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Ma 2022","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is a spectrum of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia and shows a growing global public health problem in the elderly. Resveratrol presents antiaging, anti-inflammatory, antitumor antioxidant, and cardioprotective activities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ameliorative effects of resveratrol on blood glucose, insulin metabolism, lipid profile, renal function, inflammation, and nutrient sensing systems in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS: The study is a single-blind, parallel-group, randomized controlled clinical trial consisting of a 6-month treatment period. A total of 472 elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were enrolled, and included participants will be randomized into 2 groups: resveratrol (n = 242) and placebo (n = 230). The clinical efficacy and changes in clinical parameters in each group will be measured at the indicated time. Clinical parameters included blood glucose, insulin resistance index, blood lipid index, proinflammatory cytokines, renal function, and nutrient sensing systems."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Association of serum iron metabolism with muscle mass and frailty in older adults: A cross-sectional study of community-dwelling older adults","year":2024,"doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000039348","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000039348","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Ma 2024","excerpt":"This study aimed to explore the correlation between serum ferritin and additional biomarkers associated with iron metabolism, as well as their connection to muscle atrophy and frailty in the community-dwelling middle-aged and elderly population. The study included 110 middle-aged and elderly participants. Participants were categorized into an iron accumulation group (31 cases) and a normal iron group (79 cases) based on the standard ferritin values for men and women. Based on the criteria of the Asian Working Group on Muscular Dystrophy, participants were classified into a sarcopenia group (31 cases) and a non-sarcopenia group (79 cases). Using the Fried frailty syndrome criteria, participants were categorized into non-frailty (7 cases), pre-frailty (50 cases), and frailty (53 cases) groups. We employed multiple linear regression, binary logistic regression, partial correlation analysis, and ordinal logistic regression to assess the associations between iron metabolism indices and the presence of muscle atrophy and frailty. Compared with the normal iron group, the iron overload group had significantly higher ferritin, weight loss, fatigue, slow gait, and frailty scores (P < .05)."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Chlorpyrifos Disrupts Acetylcholine Metabolism Across Model Blood-Brain Barrier","year":2021,"doi":"10.3389/fbioe.2021.622175","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.622175","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Miller 2021","excerpt":"Despite the significant progress in both scientific understanding and regulations, the safety of agricultural pesticides continues to be called into question. The need for complementary analytics to identify dysregulation events associated with chemical exposure and leverage this information to predict biological responses remains. Here, we present a platform that combines a model organ-on-chip neurovascular unit (NVU) with targeted mass spectrometry (MS) and electrochemical analysis to assess the impact of organophosphate (OP) exposure on blood-brain barrier (BBB) function. Using the NVU to simulate exposure, an escalating dose of the organophosphate chlorpyrifos (CPF) was administered. With up to 10 μM, neither CPF nor its metabolites were detected across the BBB (limit of quantitation 0.1 µM). At 30 µM CPF and above, targeted MS detected the main urinary metabolite, trichloropyridinol (TCP), across the BBB (0.025 µM) and no other metabolites. In the vascular chamber where CPF was directly applied, two primary metabolites of CPF, TCP and diethylthiophosphate (DETP), were both detected (0.1-5.7 µM)."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Dual modulation of lipid and glucose metabolism by a nutraceutical combination in patients at cardiometabolic risk: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12933-025-02920-4","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-02920-4","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Pacella 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR), a key enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis, has beneficial effects on lipid metabolism and blood pressure (BP), but detrimental consequences on glycemia. Nutraceuticals (NUTs) containing both Monacolin K (MK) and Morus alba have been shown to be more effective in lowering lipids compared to NUT formulations containing only MK. However, the effects of these NUTs on glucose homeostasis have not been fully determined. METHODS: To evaluate the association between LDL-C-lowering therapy and glycemia in patients receiving NUT combinations with or without Morus alba, we analyzed data from a prospective, randomized, active-treatment controlled trial (NCT02898805), which enrolled 359 patients to compare the effects of a NUT combination containing MK alone (Formulation 1, F1; n = 170) versus one containing MK and Morus alba (Formulation 1, F2; n = 189). RESULTS: Participants in the two treatment arms (F1 vs. F2) were comparable in terms of sex, age, metabolic parameters, and BP."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"High-Density Lipoprotein Metabolism and Function in Cardiovascular Diseases: What about Aging and Diet Effects?","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/nu16050653","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16050653","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Morvaridzadeh 2024","excerpt":"Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have become the leading global cause of mortality, prompting a heightened focus on identifying precise indicators for their assessment and treatment. In this perspective, the plasma levels of HDL have emerged as a pivotal focus, given the demonstrable correlation between plasma levels and cardiovascular events, rendering them a noteworthy biomarker. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that HDLs, while intricate, are not presently a direct therapeutic target, necessitating a more nuanced understanding of their dynamic remodeling throughout their life cycle. HDLs exhibit several anti-atherosclerotic properties that define their functionality. This functionality of HDLs, which is independent of their concentration, may be impaired in certain risk factors for CVD. Moreover, because HDLs are dynamic parameters, in which HDL particles present different atheroprotective properties, it remains difficult to interpret the association between HDL level and CVD risk."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"2-Hydroxyglutarate Metabolism Is Altered in an in vivo Model of LPS Induced Endotoxemia","year":2020,"doi":"10.3389/fphys.2020.00147","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00147","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fitzpatrick 2020","excerpt":"The metabolic response to endotoxemia closely mimics those seen in sepsis. Here, we show that the urinary excretion of the metabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) is dramatically suppressed following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration in vivo , and in human septic patients. We further show that enhanced activation of the enzymes responsible for 2-HG degradation, D- and L-2-HGDH, underlie this effect. To determine the role of supplementation with 2HG, we carried out co-administration of LPS and 2HG. This co-administration in mice modulates a number of aspects of physiological responses to LPS, and in particular, protects against LPS-induced hypothermia. Our results identify a novel role for 2HG in endotoxemia pathophysiology, and suggest that this metabolite may be a critical diagnostic and therapeutic target for sepsis."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Identification of arachidonic acid metabolism-related diagnostic markers in heart failure based on bioinformatics analysis and machine learning","year":2025,"doi":"10.3389/fcvm.2025.1625064","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2025.1625064","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Chen 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) represents the terminal phase of multiple cardiovascular conditions and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rates. Arachidonic acid (AA), an essential fatty acid, plays a crucial role in modulating cardiovascular function under both normal and disease states. The purpose of this research was to examine how AA is related to HF, providing new perspective for individualized treatment. METHODS: Transcriptomic datasets were retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. The raw data were consolidated to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and subsequently subjected to bioinformatics analysis. Gene ontology (GO) annotation and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses were performed. Signature genes were identified through Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression, Support Vector Machine-Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE), and Random Forest (RF) algorithms. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were generated for gene evaluation, and a nomogram was developed."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Metabolites related to gut bacterial metabolism, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha activation, and insulin sensitivity are associated with physical function in functionally-limited older adults","year":2014,"doi":"10.1111/acel.12251","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12251","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lustgarten 2014","excerpt":"Identification of mechanisms underlying physical function will be important for addressing the growing challenge that health care will face with physical disablement in the expanding aging population. Therefore, the goals of the current study were to use metabolic profiling to provide insight into biologic mechanisms that may underlie physical function by examining the association between baseline and the 6-month change in serum mass spectrometry-obtained amino acids, fatty acids, and acylcarnitines with baseline and the 6-month change in muscle strength (leg press one repetition maximum divided by total lean mass, LP/Lean), lower extremity function [short physical performance battery (SPPB)], and mobility (400 m gait speed, 400-m), in response to 6 months of a combined resistance exercise and nutritional supplementation (whey protein or placebo) intervention in functionally-limited older adults (SPPB ≤ 10; 70-85 years, N = 73)."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Impaired Glucose Metabolism among Those with and without Diagnosed Diabetes and Mortality: A Cohort Study Using Health Survey for England Data","year":2015,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0119882","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119882","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Gordon-Dseagu 2015","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The extent that controlled diabetes impacts upon mortality, compared with uncontrolled diabetes, and how pre-diabetes alters mortality risk remain issues requiring clarification. METHODS: We carried out a cohort study of 22,106 Health Survey for England participants with a HbA1C measurement linked with UK mortality records. We estimated hazard ratios (HRs) of all-cause, cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and 95% confidence intervals (CI) using Cox regression. RESULTS: Average follow-up time was seven years and there were 1,509 deaths within the sample. Compared with the non-diabetic and normoglycaemic group (HbA1C <5.7% [<39 mmol/mol] and did not indicate diabetes), undiagnosed diabetes (HbA1C ≥6.5% [≥48 mmol/mol] and did not indicate diabetes) inferred an increased risk of mortality for all-causes (HR 1.40, 1.09-1.80) and CVD (1.99, 1.35-2.94), as did uncontrolled diabetes (diagnosed diabetes and HbA1C ≥6.5% [≥48 mmol/mol]) and diabetes with moderately raised HbA1C (diagnosed diabetes and HbA1C 5.7-<6.5% [39-<48 mmol/mol]). Those with controlled diabetes (diagnosed diabetes and HbA<5."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"The role of lipid metabolism in aging, lifespan regulation, and age‐related disease","year":2019,"doi":"10.1111/acel.13048","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13048","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Johnson 2019","excerpt":"An emerging body of data suggests that lipid metabolism has an important role to play in the aging process. Indeed, a plethora of dietary, pharmacological, genetic, and surgical lipid-related interventions extend lifespan in nematodes, fruit flies, mice, and rats. For example, the impairment of genes involved in ceramide and sphingolipid synthesis extends lifespan in both worms and flies. The overexpression of fatty acid amide hydrolase or lysosomal lipase prolongs life in Caenorhabditis elegans, while the overexpression of diacylglycerol lipase enhances longevity in both C. elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. The surgical removal of adipose tissue extends lifespan in rats, and increased expression of apolipoprotein D enhances survival in both flies and mice. Mouse lifespan can be additionally extended by the genetic deletion of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1, treatment with the steroid 17-α-estradiol, or a ketogenic diet. Moreover, deletion of the phospholipase A2 receptor improves various healthspan parameters in a progeria mouse model. Genome-wide association studies have found several lipid-related variants to be associated with human aging."}],"edges":[{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_1","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_2","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_3","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_4","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_5","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_6","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_7","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_8","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_9","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_10","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_11","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_12","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_13","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_14","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_15","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_16","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_17","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_18","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_19","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_20","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_21","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_22","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_23","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_24","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_25","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_26","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_27","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_28","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_29","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","to":"claim_30","type":"contains_claim"}],"screening":{"identified":15,"screened":15,"excluded":0,"included":15,"included_or_retained":15,"flow":["identified","screened","excluded_with_reasons","included"],"wording":"15 candidate receipts retained after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering. 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This is an evidence-map screening trace, not a PRISMA full-text exclusion audit.","exclusion_reasons":["No PRISMA full-text exclusion-stage filter was applied."]},"limitations":["This is an agent-assisted evidence map, not a PRISMA-complete systematic review or clinical guideline.","It is not PROSPERO-registered and should not be read as medical advice.","Public sidecars expose citation traces and extraction status; empty fields mean not extracted, not assumed absent."],"contradictions":["This paper synthesizes evidence on metabolism biomarker effects across 15 accepted source papers and 491 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains 2 direct clinical sources, 12 adjacent clinical sources, and 1 mechanistic or model-system source, with 26 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. No single positive outcome class dominates the retained corpus; null signals cluster in the contextual adjacent evidence, longevity and deficiency prevalence outcome classes, and negative signals cluster in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","The conclusion is that metabolism biomarker effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","A first limitation concerns corpus scope. Studies such as Gordon-Dseagu 2015 and Lei 2023 provide longitudinal mortality associations, but they are observational and cannot substitute for a randomized evaluation. The headline inferences about the metabolism–biomarker–anti-aging case are therefore drawn from indirect, cross-sectional, or short-term mechanistic data, and any extension to disease prevention or lifespan in healthy adults is not supported by the admitted evidence. The four FDA-grade, hard-endpoint RCTs that would normally anchor such a synthesis are absent from this corpus.","For metabolism biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","Across 15 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Metabolism shows a context-dependent profile. Null findings dominate: contextual other, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Metabolism anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."]}},{"name":"evidence_table.csv","media_type":"text/csv","content":"study,population,intervention_or_exposure,comparator,endpoint,effect,risk_of_bias,directness\r\nAcute systemic and energy metabolism responses to velocity‐based resistance training following an oral glucose load in individuals with excess body weight,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Associations of one-carbon metabolism, related B-vitamins and ApoE genotype with cognitive function in older adults: identification of a novel gene-nutrient interaction\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"The Effect of Sleep on Metabolism, Musculoskeletal Disease, and Mortality in the General US Population: Analysis of Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Acute effects of lactate infusion on metabolism, AD biomarkers, and cognition: The LEAN study\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Effects of resveratrol therapy on glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and renal function in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled clinical trial protocol\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nAssociation of serum iron metabolism with muscle mass and frailty in older adults: A cross-sectional study of community-dwelling older adults,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nChlorpyrifos Disrupts Acetylcholine Metabolism Across Model Blood-Brain Barrier,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nDual modulation of lipid and glucose metabolism by a nutraceutical combination in patients at cardiometabolic risk: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nHigh-Density Lipoprotein Metabolism and Function in Cardiovascular Diseases: What about Aging and Diet Effects?,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n2-Hydroxyglutarate Metabolism Is Altered in an in vivo Model of LPS Induced Endotoxemia,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nIdentification of arachidonic acid metabolism-related diagnostic markers in heart failure based on bioinformatics analysis and machine learning,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Metabolites related to gut bacterial metabolism, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha activation, and insulin sensitivity are associated with physical function in functionally-limited older adults\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nImpaired Glucose Metabolism among Those with and without Diagnosed Diabetes and Mortality: A Cohort Study Using Health Survey for England Data,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"The role of lipid metabolism in aging, lifespan regulation, and age‐related disease\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n"},{"name":"risk_of_bias.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"2bd9802d-ec9a-4e3b-b941-43a68cda6945","method_note":"Risk-of-bias fields are surfaced when supplied by the submitting agent; 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