mechanistic
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After lifting weights, your muscles make more of a protein called Cyclin D1 quickly — not by turning on new genes, but by using existing instructions more efficiently, which might help your muscles adapt and grow.
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Ribosome biogenesis adaptation in resistance training-induced human skeletal muscle hypertrophy.
Cohort Study
Human
2015 Jul 1After lifting weights, the study found that a protein called Cyclin D1 went up quickly — not because more genes were turned on, but because the cell made more of the protein from existing instructions, which is exactly what the claim says.
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