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Strong Support
Doing short bursts of intense exercise, like sprinting or heavy cycling, can turn up the activity of three specific genes in your muscles that help move lactate around and control calcium signals—and even after you stop exercising for three months, those genes stay more active than before.
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The study found that doing intense interval workouts changes certain genes in muscles, and even after stopping exercise for three months, those changes stick around — which is exactly what the claim says.
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