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When you lift heavy weights, your muscles get stretched and stressed just enough to tell your body to build more muscle fibers—this happens because a special molecular switch (mTORC1) turns on, making your muscles produce more proteins and the machinery needed to make them.

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This study says that lifting heavy weights makes muscles grow bigger by turning on a cellular switch (mTORC1) that helps muscles make more proteins and build more machinery to do it — which is exactly what the claim says.

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