"They tend to settle onto the cells representing the gastrointestinal tract and cause remodelling or loss of the microvilli, which are tiny projections on the surface of the intestinal absorptive cells that help to increase the surface area available for absorption," Mahler added.
They are also looking into how changing certain gut bacteria may prevent obesity by remodelling intestinal tissue and thereby decreasing the absorption of nutrients in the gut.
'Brisk walking' "" In their report, they suggest: "Long-term strenuous endurance exercise may induce pathologicalstructural remodelling of the heart and arteries.
Stress also suppresses the generation of new nerve cells in the brain, and causes the "remodelling" of existing ones.
That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.