In trained men, when one muscle repair protein (IGF-IEa) goes up after a workout, the other one (MGF) tends to go up too — they seem to work together.

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Recovery after Heavy Resistance Exercise and Skeletal Muscle Androgen Receptor and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Isoform Expression in Strength Trained Men

Cohort Study

Human

2011 Mar

The study shows that two muscle repair signals go up after heavy lifting, but it doesn’t measure how closely they move together, so we can’t say they’re strongly linked like the claim says.

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Recovery after Heavy Resistance Exercise and Skeletal Muscle Androgen Receptor and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Isoform Expression in Strength Trained Men

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DOI: 10.1519/jsc.0b013e318202e449

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After doing heavy leg workouts, the muscles of trained men show a big spike in two specific proteins (IGF-IEa and MGF) that help repair muscle damage, and this spike happens about two days later.

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