Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41056945›Full record

ReviewCell metabolism2025

The energy resistance principle.

Martin Picard, Nirosha J Murugan

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Review in Cell metabolism, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Energy constraint on human health.Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Martin PicardDepartment of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Neurology, H. Houston Merritt Center for Neurological and Mitochondrial Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA; Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: martin.picard@columbia.edu.
Nirosha J MuruganDepartment of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L3C5, Canada; Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.

Funding

Mitochondrial regulation of stress reactivity in humansR01MH122706 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PICARD, MARTIN · 2020 to 2024
$3.8M
Transduction of Psychological Stress into Systematic Inflammation by Mitochondrial DNA SignalingR01MH119336 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI KAUFMAN, BRETT A, MARSLAND, ANNA L · 2019 to 2023
$3.4M
Metabolic regulation of human DNA methylation clocksR01AG066828 · NIA · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI PICARD, MARTIN · 2020 to 2024
$3.2M
Mitochondrial Energetics, Circuits and Cognitive Decline in the Aging Human BrainRF1AG076821 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PICARD, MARTIN · 2022 to 2022
$2.4M
Psychobiological regulation and molecular characterization of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in humansR01MH137190 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Martin Picard, Caroline Trumpff · 2024 to 2026
$2.4M
Mapping Mitochondrial Diversity in the Aging Brain and Immune SystemR01AG086764 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Martin Picard · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
Mitochondrial Energetics, Circuits and Cognitive Decline in the Aging Human BrainR01AG076821 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Martin Picard · 2025 to 2026
$1.6M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066828NIA NIH HHS R01 AG076821NIA NIH HHS R01 AG086764NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG076821NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH119336NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH122706NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH137190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Living organisms are physical-energetic systems that must obey simple principles guiding energy transformation across physical and temporal scales. The energy resistance principle (ERP) describes behavior and transformation of energy in the carbon-based circuitry of biology. We show how energy resistance (éR) is the fundamental property that enables transformation, converting into useful work the unformed energy potential of food-derived electrons fluxing toward oxygen. Although éR is required to sustain life, excess éR directly causes reductive and oxidative stress, heat, inflammation, molecular damage, and information loss-all hallmarks of disease and aging. We discuss how disease-causing stressors elevate éR and circulating growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) levels, whereas sleep, physical activity, and restorative interventions that promote healing minimize éR. The ERP is a testable general framework for discovering the modifiable bioenergetic forces that shape development, aging, and the dynamic health-disease continuum.

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Energy MetabolismAgingAnimalsGrowth Differentiation Factor 15HumansOxidative StressGrowth Differentiation Factor 15biological circuitsbiomarkerscytokinesdiseaseenergyexerciseGDF15healinginflammationmitochondriaoxygenphysical lawstransformation

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PMID41056945
PMCPMC12767505

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