Channel 4 uses sports science research and facilities

Dr Juliette Strauss,  LJMU Lecturer in Exercise and Health Metabolism puts presenter Mark Evans through his paces to show how being overweight can inhibit cardiovascular and respiratory function.  Dr Strauss’ research into exercise and obesity, assisted the Channel 4 programme Dogs: Their Secret Lives in revealing what this can tell us about our own weight issues.

The testing took place at the Tom Reilly Building, which contains state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. These include appetite laboratories, psychology testing labs, neuroscience labs, an indoor 70-metre running track, force platforms and motion capture systems, a CAREN virtual rehabilitation system, physiology suites, a DEXA scanner for measuring body fat, muscles and bone density, a driving simulator and a chronobiology lab.

Dr Juliette Strauss’ research, which takes place at the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences includes:

• The mechanisms underlying the development of obesity and age induced insulin resistance
• The application of novel immunofluorescence microscopy techniques to investigate lipid metabolismand insulin signalling pathways in human skeletal muscle
• Molecular and cellular responses of human skeletal muscle to acute exercise and training
• exercise and ageing

LJMU coverage starts at 21.58mins http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dogs-their-secret-lives/on-demand

Further information:  http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/sps/index.htm