Ann-Katrin (Anka) Grotle, PhD

Beeing in the lab and training students is my happy space 🤍 Excited to start new project focused on women’s health 🫀🔥

Just a subtle reminder to submit your best papers to us! ;) Wishing everyone a happy friday and great weekend!

Review: effects of the ketogenic diet 🥩 on performance 🏋️‍♀️💪: ⬇️-3.3% cycling 🚴 performance ⬇️-5.7% strength 🏋️‍♀️ ⬇️-2.4kg body weight ⬇️-0.8kg muscle mass 💪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35757868/?

We are proud to announce APS' Women’s Health Research Initiative. Our aim is to elevate the status of women’s health and the research our members are doing to address health and disease in women. Learn more: ow.ly/wqBn50RFPCH #NationalWomensHealthWeek #APSWomensHealth #SABV

Over the weekend, @Linenolsen, @CamillaVHansen, and @kwickham9 got their paper published at @JPhysiol. Here, they investigated how #exercise alters #skeletalmuscle #endothelial cell properties in #postmenopausal women. Go check it out physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… 💃🏻💃🏻

New episode on the optimal exercise intensity, duration, and frequency to prevent and reverse heart aging! In this podcast episode, Dr. Benjamin Levine discusses his groundbreaking research, which reveals how three weeks of bed rest can have a more detrimental impact on fitness than 30 years of aging. Dr. Levine details his research findings that show how a structured exercise regimen can reverse up to 20 years of heart aging by improving both shrinkage and compliance, as well as enhancing aspects of vascular age by 15 years. He also discusses how resistance training and aerobic training have profound differences on the heart, what risks are linked to high-intensity exercise, why recovery is key for the heart, how exercise duration and intensity affect coronary calcium levels, what exercise dose increases Afib risk, and so much more. This episode is a must! Available on YouTube, Spotify, X, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:31 - Bed rest vs. 30 years of aging 5:18 - Recovering from bed rest 6:49 - Does exercise protect against long COVID? 11:27 - Bed rest as a model for space flight 12:24 - How bed rest affects heart size 13:52 - Why a brand-new rubber band mimics a lifetime of endurance training 17:23 - The exercise dose that preserves youthful cardiovascular structure 19:32 - Reversing 20 years of heart aging 23:14 - Reversing vascular age by 15 years 28:38 - Why start an exercise regimen in your 70s? 34:26 - High-intensity exercise risks 37:51 - Balancing high- & moderate-intensity training 42:49 - Training for health vs. training for performance 43:57 - Why muscle mass & cardiorespiratory fitness are like retirement funds 45:12 - Make exercise part of your personal hygiene 46:16 - Why VO2 max correlates with longevity 53:43 - Cardiorespiratory fitness & mortality 59:21 - How does change in fitness over time affect mortality? 1:01:34 - Exercise non-responders 1:05:23 - Limiting factors for VO2 max improvements 1:08:20 - How marathon training affects heart size 1:12:34 - Heart adaptations in purely strength-trained vs. endurance athletes 1:18:23 - Why pure strength-trainers should incorporate endurance training 1:22:07 - How strength training affects blood pressure 1:26:41 - How exercise influences cardiac output 1:28:39 - Does CrossFit count as endurance training? 1:31:04 - Exercise for improving blood pressure 1:36:11 - Lifestyle strategies for treating hypertension 1:38:40 - Why recovery is key 1:42:36 - The best indicator of being overtrained 1:43:36 - Estimating training zones 2-5 1:50:00 - Why HRV is a poor recovery indicator 1:55:16 - Why men are faster runners than women 1:58:49 - Can women achieve similar aerobic exercise benefits doing 2x less? 2:00:21 - Possible cardiovascular benefits of HRT in women 2:02:12 - Defining “extreme exercise” 2:04:00 - How exercise volume affects coronary plaque calcification 2:10:50 - How exercise duration & intensity affect coronary calcium levels 2:14:03 - Why high exercise duration & intensity increases Afib risk 2:16:33 - What exercise dose increases Afib risk? 2:17:59 - Managing stroke risk in athletes prone to Afib 2:21:14 - Why you shouldn’t become an endurance athlete to “live longer”

@danimal_T @makbee253 Congratulations!!!🥳

A bunch of PhDs #forevermaverick 📸: @makbee253

A great conference is over in Bergen. Met many inspiring scientists doing critical work to understand sex and gender differences. Also fortunate to spend quality time with incredible Florence Haseltine, national academy of medicine winner and a true legend!

Check out our new paper @JPhysiol showing the role lactate and acidosis in evoking the exercise pressor reflex. Hemodynamic and 31PMRS experiments with genetically modified animals. Very proud of this one pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38685758/

Did not expect our project to get so much media attention, but I guess it reflects the massive interest in sauna and cold exposure in Norway and Scandinavia! Also never been this easy to find and recruit participants so I am def. not complaining 😄 instagram.com/p/C6RpwIhtyOZ/…

@proferikrichter Absolutely! Moving from the US to Norway, it has also been my impression that there is a greater push in Europe, perhaps related to stricter open science policies? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@AnkaGrotle Really important, many ramifications beyond publishing!

Well said!! It also seem this is becoming a trend when applying for research funding...

The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

When sitting 🪑 for 8.5h: Squatting 🏋️‍♀️ breaks (10 body weight squats every 45 min) effectively enhance glycemic control compared to a single bout of 30 minutes walking 🚶‍♀️: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sm…

Interesting 🧐 Low Response to Aerobic Training in Metabolic Disease: Role ... : Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/abst…

Artig media omtale om studien vår REACT study Bergen 🤩 @hvl_no @hvl khrono.no/i-sjoen-er-det…

🕰️ No time like the present to submit to our Call for Papers at ow.ly/4yJq50QIP6M CFP will explore ◽autonomic control of circulation ◽skeletal muscle blood flow ◽cerebral blood flow, cardiac blood flow ◽cardiac regulation ◽hemodynamic regulation ◽thermal challenges

@JPhysiol Thank you! 🤗

@AnkaGrotle Congratulations Ann-Katrin! Can't wait to see this one in-issue!!

Our newly published perspectives article in @JPhysiol is out sharing our perspective on the novel findings by Ducrocq et al 2023 suggesting a significant role played by TRPC6 channels in mediating the blood pressure response to exercise. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…