“…However, the cardiac tissue of the exercised group only had a minor increase in the number of 4-HNE–modified proteins after 5 months of swimming compared to the control group. Studies in animals have shown that long-term exercise reduces protein carbonyls in the plasma and gastrocnemius muscles’ mitochondria ( Huertas et al, 2017 ) and liver mitochondria ( Lima et al, 2013 ), while no differences were found in cardiac tissue ( Vieira-Souza et al, 2021 ). This could be due to cellular adaptation triggered by long-term endurance exercise, which, among others, cases the formation of mitochondrial supercomplexes ( Greggio et al, 2017 ; Huertas et al, 2017 ), which modulate the generation of mitochondrial ROS, preventing an increase in lipid peroxidation ( Barranco-Ruiz et al, 2017 ).…”