keep your muscles big and strong…while doing nothing

What a beast Popeye was.  No time in the gym, no real effort whatsoever.  Just pop a can of leafy greens and lookout.  Maybe you’re of his ilk, but personally, I have to put a little work towards attempting a stunning physique.

Perhaps that won’t be the case in the future, however.  Yet again, I present another bit of research in the vein of good ole’ exercise.  Dr. Andrew R. Judge’s team at the University of Florida has recently published their findings on the regulation of muscle mass in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Continue reading

genetic solutions to making stronger muscles

Listen all you girly men – obviously you have missed an all-important message from two of the most highly respected body-sculpting authorities of all time.  All they wanted was to pump <clap> you up, and their philosophy was clear: a muscle is a terrible thing to waste.

Fortunately, there are researchers in the medical field who would agree, though perhaps for slightly different reasons.  A collaboration between scientists at the Salk Institute and the University of Lausanne, published last November in Cell,  have discovered a natural inhibitor of muscle growth that could be used to develop treatments for a range of patients with muscular degeneration problems.

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