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DFG-funded HyperMet Research Unit (FOR 5795)
@hypermet.bsky.social
The aim of the HyperMet research unit is to investigate the metabolic health effects of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and atrophy using advanced methods of metabolic research. Speakers Henning Wackerhage & Hanna Taipaleenmäki
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From left to right: Eckhard Wolf, Karsten Hiller, Franz Schilling , Rainer Okrojek, Arne Hinrichs, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Ken Dyar, Manfred Blobner and Dominik Lutter.

Front: Nathalia Dragano, Hanna Taipaleenmäki, Henning Wackerhage, Maria Rohm and Gabi Kastenmüller.
On the 12th of March 2026, 15-16 h Munich time, Shalender Bhasin, Harvard, will present on testosterone. He is the authority on testosterone and has just published a review in Nature Metabolism on it (www.nature.com/articles/s42...). The link is here: tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6649072772...
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Join the Munich longevity symposium with Chiara Herzog and Tony Wyss-Coray on the 25th of February in Munich for free. Please register here: collab.dvb.bayern/x/oCpugw In person only! #longevity
January 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Exercise (MVPA) is king for lifespan www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
January 15, 2026 at 9:36 AM
It is really amazing how easy it is to become a longevity expert!
January 15, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Yesterday we had our bi-annual "state of TUM exercise biology" review and adjusted our mission statement.
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Great news! Today we heard that the DFG will fund the expensive aging biomarker analyses of the TauAge longevity trial with Tony Wyss Coray and Chiara Herzog clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT066...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In our mh.tum.de/en/mh/academ... we have a module on evidence-based training for performance, fitness, and health. Today we visited the Olympic training centre Bavaria to learn about elite sports support. Thanks to its head Volker Herrmann for introducing us and taking questions!
January 12, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Looking forward to discussing the vLamax/vLapeak with Andy Jones and Katha Dunst at the @ecssofficial.bsky.social meeting in Lausanne!
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by DFG-funded HyperMet Research Unit (FOR 5795)
A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment

go.nature.com/4oUCGCk
How fasting boosts breast cancer therapy
A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles.
go.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Listen to one of the legends of myokine research this Thursday,the 18.12., but only at a Australia-Europe-friendly time of 9 am (Munich time): tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6219384334...
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Looking forward to present the first @hypermet.bsky.social data at the 18th SCWD meeting in Rome!
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Looking forward to going to Rome today for the cachexia, sarcopenia & wasting disorder conference to meet colleagues and to represent HyperMet!
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Congratulations to Sakke Mäntiselkä, Juha Hulmi and other Jyväskylä colleagues for getting this HyperMet-related paper into the Monthly Collection of the Best APS Research Articles!
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Munich people, we will organise this in person longevity symposium on the 25th of February 2026. Register here: collab.dvb.bayern/x/oCpugw
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are delighted that Troy Hornberger will give a talk this Thursday 15 h Munich time on “Visualizing the Sites of Mechanically Induced Growth in Skeletal Muscle”. The Zoom link is:
tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6756494866...
Meeting-ID: 675 6494 8662
Kenncode: 929686
All free. Please retweet!
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
First the science and then the practice! First HyperMet annulliert meeting at the @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social yesterday!
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Important article linking methylation clocks to frailty: Biological age measured by DNA methylation clocks and frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis - The Lancet Healthy Longevity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Biological age measured by DNA methylation clocks and frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Higher GrimAge EAA is consistently associated with higher frailty. Future research should focus on developing and validating DNA methylation clocks that integrate molecular surrogates of health risk a...
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Troy Hornberger leads research into how hypertrophying muscle generates additional biomass. He is giving the 18th HyperMet talk on the 4th of December from 15-16 h Munich time. The Zoom link is: tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6756494866...
Password: 929686
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Great to see so many HyperMet members and exercise physiologists with metabolomics data at the DGMet meeting in Hannover. This is a growing field and it is important for us to learn to not only generate data mountains but new ideas that are useful for practice!
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Cholsoon Jang is coming as a visiting Professor to Munich for some experimental masterclasses and will give the 19th HyperMet talk next Thursday in person. Join us (details below)!
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Pumping Iron Is Their Secret to Aging Well. Not only important for independence & mobility but muscle hypertrophy also has anti-obesity and anti-diabetes effects! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...
Pumping Iron Is Their Secret to Aging Well
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
TUM is offering a global postdoc fellowship for talented researchers with a local host. Please e-mail me if you have any questions! Info here: www.tum.de/en/about-tum...
TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship - TUM
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September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congratulations to the authors for publishing this paper in on the metabolism of muscle atrophy in Cell Reports! It shows that atrophy is more than just amino acids being released into the circulation.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Multi-dimensional metabolomic remodeling under diverse muscle atrophic stimuli in vivo
Oyabu et al. establish a metabolomics dataset of muscle-atrophy-associated metabolites (“atrometabolites”) and identify impaired polyamine synthesis as a common feature of various muscle atrophy. The ...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Erik Richter is an exercise physiology legend and will give the 18th HyperMet talk on interaction of exercise and insulin on glucose uptake. tomorrow, Thursday, 28.08.2025 15-16 h Munich time. The Zoom-link is here:
tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6920502369...
Password: 702487
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM