This visual abstract depicts the findings of Mera et al., who show that the bone-derived hormone osteocalcin is necessary for optimum exercise capacity and that this hormone decreases with aging in ...

Bones are more than just the scaffolding for our body lumps. Bones are rigid organs filled with a honeycomb-like matrix, and while they do protect our internal organs, they also secret several ...

An anxious public speaker and a sky diver with vertigo have more in common than stress. But to really know what they share, you’d have to look beneath the surface — at their bones. In September 2019, ...

Experiments in mice and observations in humans have suggested the bone protein osteocalcin acts as a hormone regulating, among other things, metabolism, fertility, exercise capacity and acute stress.