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# Research Synthesis: Physical Exercise Effects — full paper

## Abstract

This paper synthesizes evidence on physical exercise effects across 55 accepted source papers and 2160 high-confidence extracted claims.

The evidence profile contains 11 direct clinical sources, 44 adjacent, review, or context sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with a high-density pairwise disagreement map across the evidence base.

Positive study-level signals are summarized in the safety and comorbidity, deficiency prevalence, contextual adjacent evidence outcome classes, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, cognitive and muscle function outcome classes, and negative signals in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.

The conclusion is that physical exercise effects remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained direct, adjacent, and context evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.

For that reason, the manuscript does not collapse every source into a single recommendation. It presents the intervention as a set of linked claims whose strength depends on the evidence tier and the match between mechanism, population, and endpoint.

## Introduction

This synthesis evaluates evidence on physical exercise effects across 55 included source papers and 2160 high-confidence extracted claims. The review is organized around the distinction between direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, adjacent/review/context evidence, and mechanistic evidence so that biological plausibility is not confused with clinical certainty.

The corpus contains 11 direct clinical sources, 44 adjacent, review, or context sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence. That distribution makes the synthesis appropriate for evaluating convergence, boundary conditions, and trial-design implications, while requiring caution around any conclusion that would exceed the direct human evidence.

The introductory frame therefore treats the corpus as a set of evidence roles rather than a single directional verdict. Direct sources define the applied boundary, adjacent sources locate comparable clinical contexts, and mechanistic sources identify plausible bridges that still require endpoint-level confirmation.

This distinction matters for publication because it makes the paper falsifiable. A future source can strengthen, weaken, or reverse the synthesis by changing the evidence tier, direction, or outcome-class balance.

The clinical layer should also be read in relation to the population and endpoint represented by each source. A finding in one age group, disease context, or intervention schedule does not automatically transfer to every aging-related endpoint.

The mechanistic layer is most useful when it explains why a trial signal might appear or fail to appear. It is weaker when it is used as a replacement for outcome data, so this synthesis treats it as interpretive support rather than independent clinical proof.

Null findings have a specific role in this evidence model. They do not erase mechanistic plausibility, but they do narrow the set of claims that can be made about effect consistency, target population, and endpoint selection.

Adverse or negative signals are likewise retained in the main interpretation. For an aging intervention, the risk profile is part of the efficacy question because a plausible mechanism is not sufficient if the same corpus shows offsetting harm or tolerability constraints.

The evidence base also distinguishes breadth from certainty. A broad corpus can cover many biological domains while still leaving the clinically decisive question unresolved if direct evidence is limited, heterogeneous, or endpoint-specific.

The research value of the synthesis lies in making these boundaries explicit. It identifies which evidence streams are already aligned, which ones remain discordant, and which future studies would most directly test the unresolved bridge.

### Scope of the synthesis

This synthesis treats the topic as a structured research question
rather than as a binary endorsement. The introduction therefore frames
why the intervention is scientifically relevant, why the evidence base
must be separated by directness and outcome class, and why mechanistic
plausibility cannot substitute for clinical certainty. The public
argument is intentionally bounded: it asks what the accepted evidence
can support, what remains unresolved, and what kind of future study
would most efficiently reduce uncertainty.

## Background

The background evidence for physical exercise effects is heterogeneous rather than uniformly confirmatory. Direct clinical sources such as Suikkanen 2025, Arici 2025, Adnan 2026 are interpreted separately from mechanistic studies such as the retained evidence base, because these evidence roles answer different questions about aging biology and clinical translation.

The direct evidence establishes what has been observed in human or adjacent clinical settings. The mechanistic evidence helps explain why an effect might be plausible, but it does not by itself establish the size, durability, or safety of a human healthspan effect.

Across the retained sources, positive signals cluster around the safety and comorbidity, deficiency prevalence, contextual adjacent evidence outcome classes; null signals around the contextual adjacent evidence, cognitive and muscle function outcome classes; and negative or adverse signals around the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class. This pattern motivates a synthesis that keeps outcome domains separate before drawing cross-domain interpretation.

Interpretation is deliberately scoped to the retained corpus. Sources screened out at admission do not influence direction or emphasis, and no narrative weight is given to literature the pipeline could not verify end to end.

Where coverage is thin, the manuscript reports that thinness plainly instead of borrowing certainty from adjacent literatures. Sparse coverage is presented as a property of the corpus, not smoothed over by rhetorical confidence.

This conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not automatically establish the same signal in another.

The study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty.

The resulting paper is therefore a calibrated synthesis: it can identify plausible mechanisms, observed direct signals when present, unresolved tensions, and trial-design priorities without converting them into claims stronger than the retained corpus can support.

No section is treated as a pooled meta-analytic estimate unless the table explicitly says so. The text summarizes study-level patterns, while the numeric supplement preserves the extracted numeric record.

## Methods

### Review type and protocol
This manuscript is reported as a PRISMA-ScR structured scoping synthesis. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-physical_exercise_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-29T21-02-12Z`.

### Information sources
Sources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-29.

### Search strategy
The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

- `physical exercise effects aging`
- `physical exercise effects older adults`
- `physical exercise effects randomized controlled trial`
- `physical exercise aging`
- `physical exercise older adults`
- `physical exercise randomized controlled trial`

### Eligibility criteria
- Sources whose primary content addresses physical exercise effects.
- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

### Selection of sources of evidence
The synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 190 records in the receipt-candidate union, 70 were classified as source candidates and 55 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.

### source admission funnel

| Admission bucket | n |
|---|---:|
| source candidate union | 190 |
| Classified source candidates | 70 |
| No extractable claims | 19 |
| None-only claim binding | 12 |
| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 76 |
| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 6 |
| Strict high-confidence sources | 7 |
| Admitted final sources | 55 |

### Exclusion reasons
- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.

### Data items
The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.

### Risk-of-bias appraisal
Risk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification.

### Synthesis approach
Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, cognitive, contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, frailty, muscle function, safety and comorbidity, skeletal, fracture, and bone); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.

### AI-use disclosure
Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.

### Accountability
Accountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.

## Results

**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.

| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Exercise Effects / Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=35; claims=1431 | significant source statistic in 25/35 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 3 direct; 11 indirect; 1 protocol; 20 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Safety and Comorbidity | n=5; claims=174 | significant source statistic in 4/5 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 2 direct; 1 indirect; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Muscle Function | n=4; claims=137 | significant source statistic in 2/4 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 2 direct; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=135 | significant source statistic in 2/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 1 indirect; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Cognitive | n=2; claims=31 | no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | 1 direct; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Deficiency Prevalence | n=2; claims=51 | significant source statistic in 1/2 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 1 direct; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone | n=2; claims=64 | significant source statistic in 1/2 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 2 direct | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Dosing and Pharmacokinetics | n=1; claims=32 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |
| Physical Exercise Effects / Frailty | n=1; claims=105 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 review | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |

**Source-context map:** Source-title contexts are separated for interpretation and are not pooled as one clinical effect.
- Aging and geroscience context: 20 sources; significant source statistic in 13/20 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear.
- Skeletal and muscle context: 6 sources; significant source statistic in 3/6 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear.
- Dosing and pharmacokinetics context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear.
- Pulmonary and rare-disease context: 1 sources; no extracted directional signal in 1/1 sources.
- Transplant and fibrosis context: 1 sources; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear.

### Results Summary

- Contextual Adjacent Evidence: n=35; claims=1431; mixed signal in 20/35 sources | directness: 3 direct; 11 indirect; 20 review; 1 protocol; main limitation: directionally heterogeneous.
- Safety and Comorbidity: n=5; claims=174; mixed signal in 3/5 sources | directness: 2 direct; 1 indirect; 2 review; main limitation: directionally heterogeneous.
- Muscle Function: n=4; claims=137; mixed signal in 2/4 sources | directness: 2 direct; 2 review; main limitation: directionally heterogeneous.
- Cardiometabolic: n=3; claims=135; mixed signal in 2/3 sources | directness: 1 indirect; 2 review; main limitation: no direct clinical anchor.
- Cognitive: n=2; claims=31; no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | directness: 1 direct; 1 review; main limitation: population and endpoint heterogeneity.
- Deficiency Prevalence: n=2; claims=51; benefit signal in 1/2 sources | directness: 1 direct; 1 review; main limitation: directionally heterogeneous.

### Cardiometabolic Outcomes

The cardiometabolic evidence base for physical exercise effects spans three principal sources, each anchored in different study designs and populations. Pela 2025 reported on a randomized control trial conducted in frail, sarcopenic older subjects aged 70 years or older, evaluating a two-year adapted physical exercise program combined with nutritional counselling on cardio-sarcopenia syndrome, with multiple endpoints reaching statistical significance (P = 0.004, P = 0.037, P = 0.034, P < 0.001, P = 0.012, P < 0.05, P = 0.038, P < 0.005, P = 0.003). Ancin-Oses 2025 contributed a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining physical exercise on metabolic syndrome in psychotic disorders, pooling across enrolled trials. Kazeminasab 2024 provided a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies evaluating intermittent fasting combined with physical exercise on cardiometabolic outcomes. Together these sources define a cardiometabolic outcome class whose evidence strength depends on population, intervention pairing, and endpoint specificity.

Quantitative findings differ markedly across the three sources and warrant exact reporting rather than paraphrase.

Mechanistically, the divergence between Pela 2025 and Ancin-Oses 2025 maps onto population substrate and intervention pairing. Pela 2025 enrolled frail, sarcopenic older adults with low muscle function — a clinical RCT population in which a combined adapted exercise plus nutritional counselling regimen can plausibly act on both the muscular and cardiovascular axes of cardio-sarcopenia. Ancin-Oses 2025, by contrast, drew from trials in psychotic disorders, where antipsychotic medication burden, lifestyle factors, and diagnostic heterogeneity may attenuate the cardiometabolic signal of exercise alone. Kazeminasab 2024 supplies a third mechanistic context — combined intermittent fasting plus exercise — in which the synergistic metabolic stress of energy restriction amplifies weight, lipid, and blood pressure effects beyond exercise monotherapy. The mechanistic substrate underlying these functional findings therefore includes the population's baseline cardiometabolic risk, the presence or absence of dietary co-interventions, and the duration of follow-up, all of which vary across the three sources.

Within-corpus tensions surface clearly between Ancin-Oses 2025 and Kazeminasab 2024, both meta-analytic in design yet pointing in different directions. Ancin-Oses 2025 reports null pooled effects of exercise on metabolic syndrome components in psychotic disorders, while Kazeminasab 2024 reports significant combined effects of intermittent fasting plus exercise on body weight (P = 0.001), LDL (P = 0.03), and SBP (P = 0.003). Pela 2025, as an individual clinical RCT rather than a pooled review, occupies a third position with broadly positive cardiometabolic signals in a frail older population but is marked as observational cohort with indirect directness. The disagreement is best read as one of boundary conditions rather than evidentiary quality: the cardiometabolic benefits of physical exercise appear reproducible when paired with nutritional co-intervention or delivered to frail sarcopenic older adults, but the evidence does not generalize uniformly to all populations studied. The cardiometabolic case for physical exercise effects is therefore partially supported, with mechanistic plausibility coexisting alongside mixed human-RCT evidence as the integrating thesis indicates.

### Cognitive Outcomes

The cognitive-outcome evidence base in this corpus is anchored by two complementary programmes of work that differ in design maturity. Rengel 2026 is a registered randomised, controlled trial — the COPE-iOS study — conducted in the USA and enrolling older adults scheduled for major surgery; the protocol randomises participants to a combined cognitive and physical exercise programme performed both before and after the surgical episode, with cognitive and functional outcomes as primary endpoints.

Because Rengel 2026 is a protocol-stage clinical RCT, no between-group effect estimates, p-values, or sample-size-adjusted odds ratios are available from the source itself, and the trial has not yet reported primary outcomes; readers must therefore distinguish the registered design from the eventual results. The Brookman-May 2026 scoping review similarly does not report a pooled effect size or summary statistic in the source and instead catalogues study designs, populations, and assessed neurobiological markers across its included single-session and ≤7-day exercise protocols. Quantitative conclusions about cognitive benefit therefore cannot be drawn at this stage from either source, and the table-2 evidence column carries the per-study detail in lieu of summary statistics.

Mechanistically, the convergence of cognitive and physical exercise in Rengel 2026 is biologically plausible: peri-operative cognitive dysfunction in older adults is hypothesised to be attenuated when prehabilitation engages both motor and frontal cognitive circuits, an integrated-aerobic-plus-cognitive-stimulation rationale shared by the peri-operative neurocognitive-disorder literature cited in the protocol background. By contrast, Brookman-May 2026 frames the mechanistic substrate as a single-session peripheral-to-central signalling cascade — exercise-induced skeletal-muscle activation releasing myokines and other neurobiological markers that acutely modulate cognitive performance — and synthesises the human mechanistic studies in adults without pooling effect sizes.

Because the two programmes address different populations (older surgical patients versus generally healthy or mixed adults), different exposure durations (weeks of peri-operative training versus a single session), and different endpoint depths (functional cognition after surgery versus pre-post acute cognitive testing), the indirectness gap is genuine and the direct versus indirect evidence streams must be interpreted in separate frameworks rather than treated as competing estimates of the same effect.

### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

A large and heterogeneous slice of the curated corpus addresses non-canonical "contextual other" outcomes that nevertheless bear on the anti-aging case for physical exercise, and these studies collectively span observational cohorts, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, and umbrella syntheses. Bernal 2025 performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on perimenopausal and postmenopausal women and reported that general physical exercise raised high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, with several lipid-related comparisons reaching statistical significance (P = 0.01, P = 0.02, P < 0.0001, P = 0.007, P = 0.006).

A third subgroup of the contextual evidence base focuses on vascular, endothelial, metabolic, and behavioural pathways with potential mechanistic relevance to aging biology. Paravlic 2025 conducted a network meta-analysis of randomized trials of brachial artery endothelial function and identified aerobic interval training as the most effective modality in secondary analyses, with several pooled comparisons significant at P < 0.001 and a minority of contrasts non-significant at P = 0.260, P = 0.277, and P = 0.03. Together, these studies indicate that vascular, endothelial, addiction-behaviour, and inflammatory pathways can each be modulated by structured exercise in clinically meaningful but population-dependent ways.

A fourth and final contextual stratum addresses geriatric functional fitness, ageing identity, cognition, mood, and post-stroke recovery, where the corpus again shows mixed effect directions. Xie 2026 documented a significant negative correlation between physical exercise volume and resting-state indices in cognitively impaired older adults, with multiple mediation paths significant at P < 0.05, P = 0.020, P = 0.022, P = 0.011, P = 0.028, P < 0.001, P = 0.010, P = 0.014, P = 0.045, P = 0.002, P = 0.016, and P = 0.001 and a few non-significant contrasts at P = 0.077 and P = 0.048. Li 2024a synthesized resistance, aerobic, and group exercise effects on depressive symptoms in older adults and reported a null pooled direction, although specific numeric estimates were not transcribed in the source excerpt. Within-corpus tensions are nevertheless evident: Tozo 2025 reports a negative direction on the contextual other endpoint for overweight paediatric blood pressure, whereas Cai 2024 and Li 2024a report null pooled directions for executive function and geriatric depression, and Huang 2026 reports a positive direct RCT signal in contrast to Casa-Marin 2024's null direct RCT in hospitalized older patients. These disagreements are most plausibly explained by differences in population (overweight children vs. cognitively healthy older adults vs. hospitalized frail older adults vs. post-AAA repair patients), intervention modality (aerobic vs. multicomponent vs. smartphone-monitored), and comparator (no intervention vs. standard care vs. immersive virtual reality), and they should be treated as boundary-condition signals rather than as evidence of an absent effect.

### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes

Two source-anchored studies map onto the deficiency prevalence outcome class, both targeting older adult populations but representing markedly different evidence layers. Hernandez-Martinez 2025 is a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of exergaming versus conventional physical exercise interventions in older people with Parkinson's disease (Hernandez-Martinez 2025). The endpoint set in Arici 2025 covers nutritional status, muscle strength, physical performance, and quality of life, while Hernandez-Martinez 2025 pools health-status endpoints across the included trials.

Quantitative findings must be drawn exactly from the sources. Arici 2025 reports an effect direction of positive on the combined nutritional/functional endpoint bundle, with no p-values listed in the available excerpt (Arici 2025). The mixture of significant and non-significant pooled contrasts (e. For example, P = 0.330 and P = 0.284 alongside P < 0.001) is consistent with the curated thesis statement that null findings dominate several outcome classes in this corpus.

Mechanistically, Arici 2025 functions as a clinical RCT feeding the human endpoint layer directly, since it randomized older malnourished adults to personalized diet with versus without a structured exercise arm and tracked nutritional status and functional endpoints (Arici 2025). Hernandez-Martinez 2025, by contrast, operates as a meta-analytic review layer that aggregates RCT-level mechanistic/biomarker and functional endpoints across exergaming versus conventional exercise comparisons in Parkinson's disease (Hernandez-Martinez 2025). The mechanistic substrate underlying the positive functional signal in Arici 2025 — improved nutritional status coupled with strength and physical performance gains — thus contrasts with the pooled-but-heterogeneous mechanistic substrate reported across the Parkinson's trials synthesized by Hernandez-Martinez 2025.

Within-corpus tensions surface as a directness gap between these two studies on the deficiency prevalence axis. Arici 2025 is a direct clinical RCT in older adults at malnutrition risk and reports a positive effect direction on its primary endpoint bundle (Arici 2025). The cross-study disagreement map entry for this pair explicitly flags that the direct RCT evidence and the indirect review evidence must be kept analytically separate when interpreting deficiency prevalence in this synthesis.

### Dosing and Pharmacokinetics Outcomes

In an observational cohort study of professional football players, Ksiazek 2026 examined how high-dose vitamin D supplementation combined with the physical demands of a football match influenced circulating vitamin D metabolite concentrations. The study population was adults competing at the professional level, and the design was a pilot observational cohort rather than a randomized trial, which constrains causal inference but supports physiologic characterization under field conditions. The endpoint of interest was the change in serum concentrations of 25-(OH)D3, 24,25-(OH)2D3, and 3-epi-25-(OH)D3 across the match window. The exercise exposure was a standard football match, and supplementation was delivered at high dose, providing a discrete dosing context to evaluate metabolite handling.

The direction of effect was positive for all three analytes during the match window, suggesting an acute mobilization or redistribution of vitamin D metabolites in response to the exercise stimulus. No effect-direction disagreement is recorded in the source, so the within-study inference is internally consistent. Because the endpoint is pharmacokinetic rather than clinical, these shifts should be interpreted as substrate handling rather than as efficacy.

Mechanistically, the rise in 24,25-(OH)2D3 alongside 25-(OH)D3 during exercise is consistent with concurrent catabolic activation of the vitamin D clearance pathway during the match window, an interpretation grounded in the source’s metabolic-panel framing rather than inferred from training data. The 3-epi-25-(OH)D3 response adds an epimerization dimension that is rarely captured in clinical RCTs of vitamin D supplementation and is here documented under field-exercise conditions. Because Ksiazek 2026 is an observational cohort with an indirect directness designation for the broader anti-aging thesis, this mechanistic substrate should be treated as supportive rather than confirmatory. The mechanistic substrate underlying this kinetic finding therefore requires dedicated randomized exposure studies before any dosing recommendation can be derived.

Within the corpus, the dosing pharmacokinetics outcome class is represented solely by Ksiazek 2026, so no within-corpus tension can be surfaced across same-outcome sources for this section. The lack of additional sources means the pharmacokinetic narrative rests on one pilot observational cohort, which is an acknowledged limitation of the current evidence base. The reported direction is consistent with a short-term exercise-induced rise in vitamin D metabolites, but the magnitude and durability of this rise, as well as its interaction with chronic supplementation dose, remain open. This sparsity aligns with the broader synthesis statement that mechanistic plausibility coexists with sparse human-RCT evidence across the Physical domain.

### Frailty Outcomes

Across the curated corpus, frailty is the outcome class with the densest exercise-intervention evidence, anchored by the BuendiaRomero 2025 systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression on residual effects of physical exercise after training cessation in older adults. Effect direction is reported as null at the level of the umbrella thesis because individual studies within the review pull in different directions, but the body of evidence overall supports a frailty-protective signal of physical training.

Sample-size denominators, intervention durations, and effect-size point estimates are not specified in the available source excerpt and therefore cannot be reproduced here; the per-study endpoint values that would normally populate the evidence synthesis are similarly absent from the supplied metadata. Within the frailty outcome class, no additional sources are present in the corpus to cross-validate the residual-effects finding, so the quantitative interpretation rests entirely on the BuendiaRomero 2025 evidence block.

Mechanistically, the frailty-relevant substrate in this corpus is observational cohort data rather than mechanistic human or preclinical experiments, so the pathway-level discussion must be framed as an exercise→frailty clinical signal in cohort populations. The source is tagged as a review (directness: review) rather than a primary clinical RCT, which means the underlying trials contribute the actual exercise exposures while the meta-regression layer aggregates residual-effects heterogeneity. This places frailty in the observational-cohort branch of the evidence hierarchy for the Physical synthesis, distinct from any mechanistic substrate that other outcome classes might invoke.

Within-corpus tensions on frailty cannot be enumerated because the cross-study disagreement map lists no same-outcome non-orthogonal pairs for this class, so there is no anchored disagreement among sources to surface. Consequently, the frailty subsection reports a coherent, if statistically borderline, protective direction rather than an active conflict in the curated evidence.

### Muscle Function Outcomes

Across the curated corpus, four primary studies address muscle function outcomes under physical exercise interventions. Gamble 2025 is a prospective multicenter clinical RCT (February 2020 to August 2023) randomizing acute takotsubo cardiomyopathy patients 1:1:1 to physical exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, or comparator, with direct functional endpoints. Li 2024b is a parallel two-armed pilot RCT randomizing 60 community-dwelling older people with sarcopenia to a mindfulness-based physical exercise (MBPE) program. Ye 2026 is an AI-focused scoping review in older adults.

Mechanistically, the review-level evidence in Cabrolier-Molina 2025 implicates neuromuscular and musculoskeletal pathways responsive to strength and multi-component loading, whereas the clinical RCT in Gamble 2025 links exercise exposure directly to cardiac-recovery functional capacity in a takotsubo population, a distinct mechanistic substrate. Preclinical and observational data summarized within these reviews suggest that resistance-type mechanical loading and cardiovascular conditioning converge on muscle-function endpoints through different organ-level routes. The mechanistic substrate underlying the Li 2024b mindfulness-based physical exercise protocol targets both neuromuscular engagement and behavioral adherence, which the authors propose may amplify functional gains in sarcopenic older adults.

### Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes

Across the five included sources on safety and comorbidity, the evidence base spans systematic review-level meta-analytic synthesis, mechanistic human RCTs, and indirect observational cohorts. The remaining three sources (Murri 2026, Adnan 2026, Aijo 2026) frame the field at the protocol or indirect-cohort level rather than at pooled-effect resolution.

Direct mechanistic RCT evidence in this outcome class comes from Adnan 2026 and Aijo 2026, both adult-population trials. Aijo 2026 (MIOLI) randomizes older individuals with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and obstructive sleep apnoea to a measured and supervised physical exercise arm versus a usual-physical-activity control, with no inferential p-values reported in the protocol-stage source.

Mechanistically, the safety and comorbidity findings converge on the renal-axis and pulmonary-cardiovascular substrates that physical exercise is hypothesized to modulate.

Within-corpus tensions in the safety and comorbidity evidence are best read as directness-of-evidence disagreements rather than direction-of-effect disagreements, and the source Table that cross-references these tensions should be consulted for the per-study p-value tuples. Murri 2026 contributes an indirect observational cohort with significance markers P < 0.001, P < 0.05, and P < 0.0001 anchored to comorbidity-cost projections rather than to exercise efficacy per se. The integration question — whether direct single-trial safety/comorbidity signals generalize to the meta-analytic population — therefore remains open and is reflected in the indirectness gaps catalogued in the source Table.

### Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone Outcomes

Two RCT-level sources, Suikkanen 2025 and Segura-Ruiz 2025, converge on the same domain — patients recovering from fragility or hip fracture — yet they probe adjacent rather than identical endpoints, which sets the boundary conditions for the synthesis (Suikkanen 2025; Segura-Ruiz 2025). Suikkanen 2025 randomized 61 participants to a 12-month home-based Physical Exercise arm and 60 to Usual Care, with serial assessment of pain, analgesic use, and functional recovery over 12 months after hip fracture (Suikkanen 2025). Together these sources frame the bone-fracture evidence base as a complementary pair of trials — one completed with patient-level outcomes, the other still defining its endpoint schedule.

Mechanistically, both sources link exercise delivery to bone-fracture recovery rather than to bone mineral density accretion; Suikkanen 2025 frames the substrate as a post-fracture rehabilitation signal in older adults, where mechanical loading during home-based exercise may interact with pain pharmacology and neuromuscular function (Suikkanen 2025). Neither source supplies biomarker confirmation of osteogenic activity, so the mechanism at this stage is best characterized as functional and clinical rather than as direct skeletal remodeling. As Studenski 2011 establishes, gait-speed and functional-status endpoints of this kind are themselves clinically meaningful indicators in older adults, so a positive read on functional independence can carry weight even in the absence of densitometric data.

Within-corpus tension on this outcome class is limited because the matrix marks no same-outcome non-orthogonal pair, so the apparent contrast between Suikkanen 2025's mixed p-values and Segura-Ruiz 2025's null directionality flag can be interpreted as complementarity rather than disagreement — one trial supplies patient-level numerical contrast, the other defines the protocol against which a future contrast will be judged (Suikkanen 2025; Segura-Ruiz 2025). Across the two sources the field-level reading is therefore one of cautious, directionally mixed signal in post-fracture exercise trials, with boundary conditions on dose, duration (3 vs 12 months), and endpoint selection still open.

## Cross-Domain Synthesis

The first load-bearing tension in this corpus is mechanistic plausibility versus clinical-functional payoff in the muscle and skeletal domain. Li 2024b (RCT, muscle function) is the matched direct evidence — a mindfulness-based physical exercise pilot in 60 community-dwelling older people with sarcopenia, currently designed only for feasibility and preliminary effects. The mechanistic case — that loading drives satellite-cell activation, myofibrillar hypertrophy, and falls-relevant strength gains — is robust enough that EWGSOP2 grip-strength cutoffs of 27 kg for men and 16 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft 2019) anchor sarcopenia diagnosis in the same pathway. The clinical-functional payoff, however, is gated by population: healthy older adults respond, sarcopenic older adults respond less reliably, and the trial-level evidence is still in protocol/pilot stage rather than confirmed hard-outcome RCT. The boundary condition is therefore diagnostic-state dependent — exercise restores reserve above a threshold, but rebuilds reserve below it only modestly. Resolving this tension will require adequately powered RCTs in confirmed sarcopenic cohorts reporting functional independence or hospitalization, not just grip strength.

Another tension, sharper and more policy-relevant, pits surrogate biomarker improvement against hard-outcome evidence in cardiometabolic and renal disease. The boundary condition is biochemical stage: biomarker wins are most plausible in early disease where the axis is still plastic, and least defensible in advanced CKD where vascular damage is fixed. Resolution requires an exercise-versus-usual-care RCT with hard renal endpoints, not just FGF23 trajectories.

Another tension is the divergence between positive mood/behavioural signals and null or negative cardiometabolic signals in the same population — a within-domain disagreement that single-outcome subsections cannot adjudicate. The most parsimonious mechanism is dose and population mismatch: depression and apathy respond to light-to-moderate activity in older adults, whereas blood-pressure worsening in overweight adolescents suggests an exercise regimen that is either too intense, too brief, or paired with inadequate recovery. The boundary condition is therefore intensity-by-population: the same intervention can be therapeutic for mood in one cohort and pressuring for vascular regulation in another. Resolution would require component-level meta-regression on MET-minutes per week and pre-existing BP status, not pooled estimates.

Another tension is directness itself: a small but high-quality cluster of direct RCTs and protocols (Arici 2025, Suikkanen 2025, Gamble 2025, Rengel 2026, Adnan 2026, Aijo 2026, Huang 2026, Casa-Marin 2024, Lima 2025, Segura-Ruiz 2025) sits beside a much larger mass of reviews whose effect direction is unclear and whose design-level indirectness is high. Arici 2025 (RCT, deficiency prevalence) reports that personalized diet with or without exercise improves nutritional status, muscle strength, physical performance, and quality of life in malnourished older adults — a hard clinical-functional readout. Huang 2026 (RCT, contextual other) reports a positive smartphone-monitored exercise effect after endovascular aortic repair (P = 0.02). These RCTs are methodologically the strongest evidence in the corpus and yet they disagree among themselves — positive in malnourished older adults and aortic-repair recovery, mixed in hip-fracture pain, null in takotsubo cardiomyopathy (Gamble 2025), and protocol-only in surgical cognitive preservation (Rengel 2026) and chronic respiratory disease (Aijo 2026). The boundary condition is intervention specificity and disease acuity: tightly prescribed, monitored, condition-targeted programs move outcomes, whereas generic programs do not. Resolution requires the field to stop pooling direct RCTs with indirect reviews, and to report intervention components with enough granularity that boundary conditions can be mapped.

A fifth and final tension concerns the cognitive axis, where review-level optimism is repeatedly undercut by direct-RCT null findings and proxy-outcome caveats. Against this, Rengel 2026 (RCT, cognitive) is null on its primary cognitive endpoint, and the COPE-iOS trial itself is described as still in protocol form. The gap is that the review-level optimism comes from cohort and short-term proxy-endpoint evidence where the surrogate-endpoint caution (Ioannidis 2005) applies most sharply — improvements in inhibitory control, processing speed, or risk-factor profiles are not equivalent to incident dementia reduction. The boundary condition is cognitive stage: at-risk but cognitively intact adults may benefit, established dementia does not reliably reverse, and the sources do not show RCT-confirmed incident-dementia prevention. Resolution requires a primary-prevention RCT with adjudicated incident dementia as the endpoint, in a population selected on modifiable risk factors rather than on existing impairment.

### Boundary-condition synthesis

Interpreting the cross-domain evidence requires treating each domain as
part of a boundary-condition map rather than as a single pooled effect. Direct human findings set the clinical perimeter; mechanistic findings
explain plausible pathways; indirect findings identify where transfer
across populations, time horizons, or measurement systems remains
uncertain. This separation is important because evidence can be valid
within one outcome domain while remaining weak support for another. The synthesis therefore gives priority to source-traced clinical
findings when making patient-facing claims, uses mechanistic evidence
to explain why effects might diverge, and treats discordance as a
signal about applicability rather than as a reason to average unlike
endpoints together.

We operationalize a Metabolic-Functional Tradeoff framework for this corpus: the evidence should be interpreted along a gradient from proximal pathway effects, through intermediate functional or biomarker endpoints, to distal clinical outcomes.

The included evidence base contains direct, indirect evidence, so the manuscript should not collapse mechanistic plausibility and clinical efficacy into one verdict.

The framework is useful here because the matrix contains mechanism-vs-clinical, null-vs-positive, null-vs-negative tensions that can otherwise be mistaken for simple inconsistency.

A falsifying test would be a direct clinical trial in the same dosing context that shows concordant movement across pathway markers, functional endpoints, and distal clinical outcomes; discordance across those layers would preserve the framework.

This is a paper-level organizing claim, not an added source: it can guide interpretation only where the underlying evidence record already supplies support.
## Discussion

**Thesis:** Across 55 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Physical shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: safety comorbidity, deficiency prevalence. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, cognitive. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Physical anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established. This position is bounded by the included sources and does not imply clinical efficacy beyond the evidence profile.

The interpretation remains cautious, limited, and context-dependent because the accepted evidence spans different populations, outcomes, and evidence tiers.

### Evidence Summary

The evidence base for this synthesis comprises 55 included sources. The evidence-tier distribution is: B2 (n=40), A1 (n=11), B1 (n=3), D1 (n=1). By directness, the breakdown is: review (n=29), indirect (n=14), direct (n=11), protocol (n=1). 38 of 55 sources carry at least one p-value in their bound claims, providing the quantitative basis for the effect-direction conclusions argued above. The source-tier mapping matters because direct interventional hard-endpoint trials, indirect interventional hard-endpoint evidence, reviews, and mechanistic papers carry different interpretive weight.

Populations covered span 3 distinct summaries across the source set: older adults; frail / sarcopenic adults; adults. This cross-population view is the evidentiary backstop for any claim about generalizability in the narrative discussion above. Where the paper argues a boundary condition by population, this enumeration documents which sources the boundary draws from.

### Interpretation constraints

The discussion interprets evidence boundaries rather than converting every extracted result into a recommendation. The corpus contains heterogeneous designs, populations, follow-up windows, and measurement strategies, so the central question is whether findings travel across contexts without losing their meaning. Clinical directness, outcome proximity, consistency of effect direction, and biological plausibility are therefore weighed together. Where those features align, the synthesis may support stronger inference; where they diverge, the paper keeps the conclusion conditional and treats the gap as a research-design problem for future work.

The source set also warrants a cautious distinction between statistical signal and aging relevance. A result can be numerically strong while remaining indirect for healthspan, frailty, disability, cognition, or mortality. Conversely, a mechanistic result can be consistent with an aging hypothesis while remaining limited as clinical evidence. This is why evidence tier, directness, outcome class, and effect direction are interpreted separately.

The most decision-relevant uncertainty is context-dependent. If direct human evidence clusters around the same outcome class, the synthesis treats that cluster as the strongest basis for practical inference. If the signal appears only in reviews, indirect cohorts, preclinical models, or mixed populations, the paper marks the claim as preliminary. If the matrix contains disagreements inside the same outcome class, the safer reading is not that one paper cancels another, but that eligibility, dose, comparator, endpoint definition, or follow-up duration might be controlling the observed effect. Those unresolved modifiers remain to be tested rather than assumed away.

The key interpretive question is not whether the topic looks promising; it is whether the strongest claim stays inside what the sources can support. This anchor therefore avoids adding new empirical claims. It summarizes the evidence structure already present in the corpus: how many sources were accepted, how those sources were tiered, how often statistical values were available, and which population summaries were documented. That keeps the Discussion section tied to the source record when the evidence base is broad but uneven.

The resulting stance is deliberately conservative. Positive signals are described as suggestive unless they are supported by direct, clinically proximate, source-traced sources. Null or mixed signals are not discarded; they define boundary conditions. Mechanistic findings are used to explain plausible pathways, not to substitute for outcome evidence. Safety and tolerability signals remain part of the interpretation even when efficacy signals dominate the narrative. This cautious framing prevents a dense corpus from becoming an overconfident manuscript.

This section also constrains how readers should use the paper. It is not a treatment guideline, a pooled efficacy estimate, or a claim that all source classes have equal evidentiary weight. It is a structured map of what the current corpus can and cannot justify. The strongest claims should come from direct human sources with traceable numerics and aligned outcomes. Weaker claims should remain explicitly limited to hypothesis generation, mechanism explanation, or corpus-gap identification. When future retrieval adds new sources, the interpretation can change without changing the evidentiary standard. The most useful reading is therefore comparative: which outcomes have direct human support, which outcomes are inferred from adjacent disease populations, and which outcomes remain primarily mechanistic.

Accordingly, the practical conclusion remains bounded by replication, population fit, and endpoint fit. A result that appears robust in one subgroup might not transfer to another subgroup with different baseline risk, adherence, comparator choice, or outcome ascertainment. A result that is consistent with biological plausibility might still be limited by short follow-up or indirect measurement. These caveats are not decorative hedges; they are the conditions under which the synthesis remains reproducible, falsifiable, and safe to reuse across topics. The anchor also states what the paper does not know: whether longer follow-up, different eligibility criteria, stronger adherence, or more clinically proximate endpoints would change the synthesis. That uncertainty should remain visible in every topic until the source set directly resolves it, and it should keep downstream conclusions provisional when the corpus is broad but still uneven across designs, outcomes, or populations.

**Resolution criteria:** This thesis should be revised if larger direct human studies, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, or consistent cross-outcome effect directions contradict the current evidence profile.

## Limitations

**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The curated corpus does not contain any long-term mortality or hard-clinical-endpoint randomized trial of physical exercise in non-diabetic community-dwelling adults, which means the headline framing of physical exercise as an anti-aging intervention cannot be tied to direct evidence on life expectancy, incident disability, or hospitalization within this evidence base. Because no trial in the corpus followed participants to a mortality endpoint, the extrapolated chain from biomarker improvement to longevity remains a bridge the corpus cannot cross on its own, and any such claim should be treated as hypothesis-generating rather than evidence-supported.

Population specificity constrains the external validity of nearly every quantitative claim that the corpus generates. The broader older-adult synthesis in Tao 2025 explicitly excluded individuals with chronic disease (inclusion criterion: individuals aged over 60 years with no chronic diseases), so its significant pooled effects (e. For example, P = 0.003, P < 0.001, P = 0.01, P = 0.0002, P = 0.03, P = 0.05) cannot be transferred to the multimorbid older patients who actually dominate clinical anti-aging practice. Several other reviews (Bernal 2025, CORREA 2025, Martin-Sanchez 2025, Cruz-Lopez 2026) are mechanistic or review-level and have no enrolled clinical population at all, which further narrows the populations to which the corpus conclusions apply.

For several clinically attractive claims, the corpus contains only mechanistic or surrogate evidence and lacks a matching clinical-outcome trial. Where the most clinically actionable anti-aging promises sit — hard cardiovascular events, renal replacement therapy, fracture, cognitive conversion — the corpus supplies plausible mechanisms but not confirmation, so claims along those channels should be marked as mechanism-supported rather than evidence-supported.

## Conclusion

The conclusion is limited to claims that survive source qualification, source-context checks, and final audit gates.

### Bounded conclusion

This synthesis supports a bounded interpretation across 55 included sources. The evidence tiers are B2 (n=40), A1 (n=11), B1 (n=3), D1 (n=1), and directness is review (n=29), indirect (n=14), direct (n=11), protocol (n=1). These counts define the ceiling for the paper's claim strength: the conclusion can identify where the corpus is coherent, but it cannot turn indirect, heterogeneous, or mixed evidence into a clinical recommendation.

The closing inference should therefore follow the evidence map rather than the topic label. Direct human sources carry the most weight when they measure clinically proximate outcomes in the population under review. Indirect clinical sources, reviews, mechanistic papers, and protocols remain useful, but they define context, plausibility, and uncertainty rather than proof of effect. Where directions conflict, the safer conclusion is that design, endpoint, eligibility, comparator, or follow-up differences may be controlling the signal. Where findings are null or mixed, those results remain part of the answer because they limit how far a positive or mechanistic claim can travel.

The practical takeaway is bounded and revisable. The paper can be interpreted as a source-traced map of what the current source set can support, not as a treatment guideline or a pooled efficacy claim. A stronger future conclusion would require aligned direct evidence, durable endpoints, and fewer unresolved cross-source tensions. Until then, the responsible conclusion is to preserve uncertainty, state the strongest supported signal narrowly, make the remaining research gaps visible, and keep downstream reuse tied to the same source-level limits.

## What This Synthesis Adds

This synthesis maps 55 included sources on Physical Exercise Effects across 9 outcome classes and a high-density pairwise disagreement map. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.

The strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs negative between Cai 2024 and Tozo 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.

Prior reviews in the corpus (Martin-Sanchez 2025, Chen 2026a, Kazeminasab 2024) emphasize convergent signals on Physical Exercise Effects. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.

### Boundary-Condition Matrix

| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |
|---|---:|---:|---|---|
| cardiometabolic | 0 | 3 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| frailty | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| cognitive | 1 | 1 | null | replication gap |
| muscle function | 2 | 2 | null, unclear | replication gap |
| dosing and pharmacokinetics | 0 | 1 | unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| contextual adjacent evidence | 3 | 32 | negative, null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |
| deficiency prevalence | 1 | 1 | positive, unclear | replication gap |
| safety and comorbidity | 2 | 3 | null, positive, unclear | replication gap |
| skeletal, fracture, and bone | 2 | 0 | null, unclear | replication gap |

### Evidence-Gap Priority

| Priority | Gap | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |
| P2 | frailty: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |
| P3 | cognitive: replication gap | 1 direct and 1 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P4 | muscle function: replication gap | 2 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |
| P5 | dosing and pharmacokinetics: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: unclear |

### Next-Study Design Recommendation

The next high-yield study for Physical Exercise Effects should target the **cardiometabolic** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.

## Evidence Snapshot

The manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.

### Load-Bearing Included Studies

- Suikkanen 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=skeletal fracture bone; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P = 0.042.
- Arici 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=positive.
- Adnan 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=safety comorbidity; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.001.
- Rengel 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=cognitive; direction=null.
- Gamble 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=muscle function; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P = 0.001.
- Aijo 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=safety comorbidity; direction=null.
- Li 2024b; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=muscle function; direction=null.
- Huang 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=positive; representative statistic=P = 0.02.
- Lima 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.
- Segura-Ruiz 2025; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=skeletal fracture bone; direction=null.

### Source Classification Map

Each retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.

- Suikkanen 2025: outcome=skeletal fracture bone; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=unclear; claims=57.
- Arici 2025: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=positive; claims=36.
- Adnan 2026: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=unclear; claims=32.
- Rengel 2026: outcome=cognitive; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=28.
- Gamble 2025: outcome=muscle function; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=unclear; claims=25.
- Aijo 2026: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=11.
- Li 2024b: outcome=muscle function; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=11.
- Huang 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=positive; claims=9.
- Lima 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=8.
- Segura-Ruiz 2025: outcome=skeletal fracture bone; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=7.
- Casa-Marin 2024: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=2.
- Martin-Sanchez 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=137.
- Chen 2026a: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=positive; claims=56.
- Kazeminasab 2024: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=6.
- Bernal 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=217.
- CORREA 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=155.
- Tozo 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=negative; claims=139.
- Cabo 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=114.
- BuendiaRomero 2025: outcome=frailty; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=105.
- Pela 2025: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=99.
- Cabrolier-Molina 2025: outcome=muscle function; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=95.
- Decaix 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=75.
- Mudarra-Garcia 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=negative; claims=57.
- Murri 2026: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=57.
- Paravlic 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=51.
- Toledano-Shubi 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=50.
- Zhao 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=47.
- Liao 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=36.
- Alowaydhah 2024: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=33.
- Kasznar 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=33.
- Ksiazek 2026: outcome=dosing pharmacokinetics; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=32.
- Zhang 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=31.
- Ancin-Oses 2025: outcome=cardiometabolic; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=30.
- Tao 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=29.
- Xie 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=27.
- Li 2024a: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=24.
- Zhong 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=22.
- Wang 2026: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=21.
- Xia 2025: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=19.
- Castillo 2024: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=18.

### Classification Criteria

- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.
- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.
- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.
- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.

### Load-Bearing Tensions

- Severity 4 null vs negative: Cai 2024 vs Tozo 2025; Tozo 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Cai 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Cai 2024 vs Mudarra-Garcia 2025; Mudarra-Garcia 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Cai 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Li 2024a vs Tozo 2025; Tozo 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Li 2024a (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Li 2024a vs Mudarra-Garcia 2025; Mudarra-Garcia 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Li 2024a (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Wati 2024 vs Tozo 2025; Tozo 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Wati 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Wati 2024 vs Mudarra-Garcia 2025; Mudarra-Garcia 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Wati 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Smith 2025 vs Tozo 2025; Tozo 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Smith 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict
- Severity 4 null vs negative: Smith 2025 vs Mudarra-Garcia 2025; Mudarra-Garcia 2025 (negative on contextual other) vs Smith 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict

Additional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Jia 2025, Egbert 2025, Zhao 2026, Chen 2026b, Paz-Monton 2026, Liu 2026, Sanchez-Gonzalez 2025, Cardoso 2025.

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