Public Health

Dr. Yftach Gepner

Dr. Gepner, PhD, School of Public Health, Faculty of MediciGepnerne , completed his Ph.D. at Ben -Gurion University on the role of lifestyle intervention on various body fat depots. He then continued his training in the Department of Sport and Exercise at University of Central Florida, to better understand the field of exercise physiology in both applied and basic in nature. Gepner has been awarded the 2020 Neufeld Memorial Research Grant, which will run concurrently with his BSF and other grants.

Impact of exercise training

Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health, and has long been touted as a strategy for weight loss However, only 20 % meeting the physical activity guidelines and over 90 % of the people who lose weight will gain it all back . Dr. Yftach Gepner research focuses on understanding the impact of exercise training, combined with dietary strategies, on muscle damage and mass, metabolism and performance across a range of populations Dr https://www.gepnerlab.com /

Gepner are using cuttingedge technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for assessing muscle damage and adipose tissue distribution, doubly labeled water to assess energy expenditure and labeled amino acid to determine protein synthesis by muscle biopsy. By combining applied and mechanistic metabolism and physiology adaptation studies, his goal is to elucidate the unique beneficial effect from physical activity.