Running, Walking Stimulates Bone Marrow to Make Bone
May 11, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
It has long been known that impact exercise—running, jumping, walking—strengthens bone by stimulating osteoblasts. This is a complicated process that also depends on nutrition (calcium, vitamins) and several hormones. This report, from researchers at the Children’s Research Institute, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, describes how “. . . arteriolar blood vessels that go through the bone surface to the marrow transmit movement-induced mechanical forces and thereby stimulate the proliferation of bone- and immune-cell precursors.” Curiously, no gene therapy protocol has yet addressed bone conditions. MORE
Image Credit: Children’s Research Institute, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center