When your muscles get really big—more than 22% larger—they need extra help from special cells to add more nuclei so they can keep growing.

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Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions.

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2023 Oct 1

The study shows that when muscles get bigger from exercise, they often bring in new helper cells to add more nuclei, which helps them grow — this matches the claim that new nuclei are needed for big muscle gains.

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Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions.

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DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00039.2022

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