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Flight exercise

Intervention

1 paper3 findings

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • Model organisms1

Outcomes

3

Mortality

downin flies1

1 study

  1. Flight exercise decreases mortality in flies.

    “counteracts the adverse effects of a Western diet (WD), improving climbing behavior and reducing WD-associated mortality.”

    Model organismsWestern diet5 days

    FLEX: Flight Exercise Training Protocol for the Fruit Fly Drosophila

    Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE14 Oct 2025

Climbing behavior

upin flies1

1 study

  1. Flight exercise improves climbing behavior in flies.

    “counteracts the adverse effects of a Western diet (WD), improving climbing behavior and reducing WD-associated mortality.”

    Model organismsWestern diet5 days

    FLEX: Flight Exercise Training Protocol for the Fruit Fly Drosophila

    Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE14 Oct 2025

Bioenergetic capacity

upin flies1

1 study

  1. Flight exercise increases bioenergetic capacity in flies.

    “The experiments show that a 5-day flight exercise regimen increases the fly's bioenergetic capacity”

    Model organisms5 days

    FLEX: Flight Exercise Training Protocol for the Fruit Fly Drosophila

    Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE14 Oct 2025

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