[solarmist]

Kinda, but only indirectly as I understand it. The more I read the more it seems to matter the time spent in a fasting state relative to a fed state.

So a run could work if you’re not overeating, but if you’re regularly overeating it wouldn’t work because you might use up your food, but then immediately resupply or have eaten too much prior to it and it takes hours to finish nutrient delivery.

Mostly though they’re complimentary processes neither directly involved with the other.

[xriddle]

The latest science in Rats says no. I don't have the exact article available but it's discussed at length in this podcast recently.

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/mark-mattson

[solarmist]

As I’ve said in other comments what seems to matter is the ratio of time spent in a fed state (body delivering nurtrients) vs a fasting state (body using fat for energy, depleting stores of things and doing housekeeping).

From that perspetive running could help, but only from the point of view of possibly getting you to the fasting state more quickly (a kind of kickstarter), but it would be easy too derail that by eating to soon or a hundred other things.