Expertise
His research focus is human metabolism and more specifically the ways in which factors such as exercise intensity, nutritional status, training status, gender, age, menstrual cycle phase, and environment alter substrate (carbohydrate, fat, and protein) use at rest and during exercise. His research involves basic measurements such as the analysis of respiratory gas exchange and concentrations of various blood metabolites and hormones to more complex measurements of substrate turnover by stable isotope infusion and analysis.
Keywords: Exercise Physiology, Metabolism.
While at the University of Miami, Dr. Jacobs and his students have investigated many topics including pharmacological and ischemic preconditioning effects on cardiovascular hemodynamics and exercise performance at simulated moderate and high altitudes, pre-exercise sprints and glycemic control in type 1 diabetics during prolonged exercise, cervical strength training and head kinematics during a football tackle, and aerobic training and markers inflammation.