| Keywords |
Thermal loading ; Adipoinsular axis ; Insulin ; Leptin |
| Abstract |
This study was performed to identify the adipoinsular axis response, which is closely related to energy balance and obesity, for subjects (10 males, age, 23.17±2.58yrs; height, 173.16±3.28cm; weight, 67.68 ± 5.23 kg, body fat, 21.34 ± 3.52%; muscle mass, 20.40 ± 3.58 kg) which consisted of human who experienced thermal loading regularly for four weeks (half bath in hot water, 43oC, 12 times, 30min/day, RTL). According to results of the present study, RTL inhibited expression of insulin significantly and the level of leptin was also reduced significantly due to a chain reaction of adipoinsular axis. Though waist size was reduced significantly, levels of free fatty acid and mean whole body sweat loss volume showed significant increase. In conclusion, RTL contributed to inhibiting expressions of insulin and leptin. And, it was demonstrated that the overall response of adipoinsular axis was reduced according to this inhibition. |