Professor Kieran Clarke
Professor Emeritus in Physiological Biochemistry, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
About
Professor Kieran Clarke's research focuses on the effects of diet on energy metabolism in heart, brain and skeletal muscle, and thereby on physical performance and cognitive function. Her work is also directed towards understanding the metabolic control of gene expression in heart failure and in the diabetic heart, as well as the use of stem cells to treat the infarcted heart.
Expertise
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
- Diabetes
- Diet and cancer
- Exercise
- Fatty liver disease
- Human metabolism
- Ketogenic diet
- Ketone body biochemistry
- Sleep
- Weight loss
Selected publications
- Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preference and Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes (2016)
- On the pivotal role of PPARα in adaptation of the heart to hypoxia and why fat in the diet increases hypoxic injury (2016)
- Exacerbation of cardiac energetic impairment during exercise in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a potential mechanism for diastolic dysfunction (2015)
Media experience
Professor Clarke has experience of working with the media.
Recent media work
- Scientists think they've discovered a fourth type of fuel for humans - beyond carbs fat and protein (Independent, 2017)
- The Perks of Fasting, With None of the Work (The Atlantic, 2017)
- New sports drink claims to help endurance athletes avoid hitting the ‘wall’ (South China Morning Post, 2016)
- UN: World eating too much sugar; cut to 5-10 percent of diet (Daily Mail, 2015)