What have we learned about exercise and physiology at Cal?

How the human body acquires, stores and uses chemical energy a basic processes, key to life. Indeed, the metabolism of a champion athlete, the aging individual, the person with several forms of chronic diseases and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients are all governed by the same metabolic, biochemical and physiological processes. In his lecture Professor Brooks took a young man's interest in studying exercise metabolism to a passion for studying metabolism in resting healthy men, and women at sea level and high altitude, in aging and after TBI. Along the way, some fundamental biological discoveries were made, and tens of graduate students and hundreds of undergraduates had their first experiences in biomedical research.

Speaker: Dr. George Brooks, UC Berkeley