Showing posts with label muscles and joints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muscles and joints. Show all posts
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Benefits Of A Ketone Ester Drink

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Utility of a ketone ester drink, along with adequate glucose, in enhancing muscle glycogen synthesis is shown here , abstract: INTRODU...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Myoststin Knockout Improves Cachexia And Inhibits Tumor Growth

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Cachexia- induced muscle wasting is a problem in cancer. This paper tests the hypothesis that knocking out myostatin expression could help...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Protein Intake Timing

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Here is a paper from several years ago that asserts that protein intake distribution – consuming most of the protein at one meal or spread...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Resistance Training Restores Muscle Sensitivity To Feeding

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An interesting paper on exercise, feeding, and muscle; abstract: Normally, skeletal muscle mass is unchanged, beyond periods of growth...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Resistance Training And Muscle Metabolism

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Here is a paper from several years ago formally demonstrating what bodybuilders have long put into practice: resistance training affects p...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Gene Editing For Muscular Dystrophy

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Here is a paper from several years ago discussing promising results with gene therapy in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy.  Abstract: ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Exercise Non-Responders?

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Are any people real “non-responders” to exercise?   This paper says “no” – those people just need a “higher dose” of exercise in order to ...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Dietary Interventions For Sarcopenia

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Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle with normal aging.  What dietary interventions can help improve muscle mass in these patients?   Abstract:...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Exercise Type And Neuromuscular Adaptions

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Can the type of exercise influence what kind of neuromuscular adaptions result?  Does high intensity training cause different types of adap...
Monday, September 3, 2018

Protein And Fat Free mass in Female Resistance Training

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In a group of female athletes undergoing resistance training, a high protein diet improved fat free mass gain but was not required for ga...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Muscle Damage Not Required For Muscle Growth In Resistance Training?

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Muscle growth die to resistance may not be dependent on muscle damage (and subsequent repair of that damage) induced by training. If tru...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Training Data: Morning Or Afternoon?

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In general resistance training goes better in the afternoon than in the morning, although this morning deficit can be overcome by regular m...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Aging, Androgens, Wnt, And Muscle

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Fewer androgen receptors in muscle with age leads to less Wnt5a expression and that leads to less muscle - one explanation for muscle los...
Friday, April 6, 2018

How Much Protein Can The Body Use In A Single Meal For Muscle-Building?

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There is controversy about how much protein can be properly utilized by the body per meal for purposes of muscle building.  There is a sc...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Perchance To Dream…But Not When Lifting

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Muscle strength in lifting, particularly heavy compound movements, is impaired by lack of sufficient sleep ; thus:  Inadequate sleep...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Creatine And Resistance Exercise For Older Individuals

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Creatine supplementation has been shown to be helpful in building muscle mass and strength in older individuals undergoing resistance train...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Load And Resistance Training Results

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Take home point: to build muscle only, one can use both heavy or lighter resistance.  To build strength, heavy is required.  Thus, if you ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Protein Types And Muscle Building

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By Adrem68 at Dutch Wikipedia - Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid...
Friday, September 1, 2017

More On CRISPR Gene Therapy

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By Nielsrca - Own work based on figures in Nature Protocols, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45011253 C...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Train To Failure?

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By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33634102 If Mike Mentzer (pictured at left), the champion of "he...