Joe Matthews
@JosephMatthews_
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Physiologist and Nutritionist - 🇬🇧🇮🇳
ACSM Expert Consensus Statement on Weight Loss in Weight Category Sports 🥊🥋🏋🏾♂️🤼🏇🏽🚣🏽♀️ It was great to work with @LouiseMBurke @CLESpoSci @GaryJSlater + Craig Horswill on this paper. Some highlights below. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33790193/
What is dietary protein quality? New paper in the Journal of Nutrition. My first, first-author paper since joining @DrMyohead at UAMS. Dietary protein quality is the ability of a protein source to provide bioavailable essential amino acids (EAAs). But what affects this…?👇🏽
A day well spent at the beautiful Greers Ferry Lake in Arkansas ☀️🌊



No it doesn’t. People with access and time to sauna 4x/week have lower CVD risk than people without access and time to sauna 4x/week. These groups of people are very different.
5 minutes in a sauna 4x/week reduces cardiovascular risk by 50%
A superb metabolism postdoc opportunity here with @HenningLanger
Hey Muscle And Metabolism Folks on Twitter, @LykkeSylow and I are looking for a Postdoc who is interested in applying for a prestigious @DDEA_Denmark fellowship with us. More details in the picture attached. Please share widely! @MYOTWlTTER
Very happy that I just had a grant proposal accepted by FAPESP to study the cardioprotective effects of carnosine. There will be a 18-month fully-funded post-doc position, and I will be receiving applications. Please send your CV if interested, or fwd this to potential candidates
One year in Little Rock, Arkansas! 🇺🇸 It's hard to believe a year has passed already. Looking forward to spending more time in The Natural State!




Our new review "Physiological Rhythms: Shining Light of Skeletal Muscle" now out in the current issue of @ExpPhysiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP…
Post doc opportunity with Karyn Esser @UF working on the SOMMA project! Reach out to her if you are interested.
Two fully funded PhD studentships available within @uoe_npg at @UniofExeter looking at GLP1 agonists, weight loss and nutrition and/or exercise to preserve muscle:exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…
Is taurine an aging biomarker? Apparently not. Do taurine levels correlate with any sort of health status? Apparently not. Were prior high-profile claims as to the benefits of taurine reproducible? Apparently they were not. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
This is quite something! Science is only self-correcting when we have people willing to do the correcting 👇🏽
$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/med…
Our latest paper now out in JBMR. We explored the relationship between vitamin D metabolites and tibial microstructure, and the effect of vitamin D supplementation on adaptive bone formation in military training. academic.oup.com/jbmr/advance-a…