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In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening, also called an eccentric contraction, generates effective conditions for new growth.
Without proper nutrition, hormones, and rest, your body would never be able to repair damaged muscle fibers.
Protein in our diet preserves muscle mass by providing the building blocks for new tissue in the form of amino acids.
Gender and age affect this repair mechanism, which is why young men with more testosterone have a leg up in the muscle building game.
Genetic factors also play a role in one's ability to grow muscle.
Some people have more robust immune reactions to muscle damage, and are better able to repair and replace damaged muscle fibers, increasing their muscle-building potential.
Why? I've been told it's based on an assumption that African-Americans have more muscle mass than people of other races.
But what sense does it make for a doctor to automatically assume I have more muscle mass than that female bodybuilder?
Wouldn't it be far more accurate and evidence-based to determine the muscle mass of individual patients just by looking at them?
It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass, enzyme level, genetic traits they just don't have time to look for.
As soon as the arm touches the food, a muscle activation wave travels all the way through the arm to its base, while the arm sends back another wave from the base to the tip.
It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of sugar to energy.
The pancreas still sends out insulin, but cells, especially muscle cells, are less and less responsive to it, so blood sugar fails to decrease, and blood insulin continues to rise.
While BMI can be a helpful estimate of healthy weight, actual body fat percentage can only really be determined by also considering information like waist circumference and muscle mass.
It begins with an involuntary spasm or sudden contraction of the diaphragm, the large dome-shaped muscle below our lungs that we use to inhale air.
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's rights: "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man.
This organ's muscular wall is made of tissue called detrusor muscle which relaxes as the bladder fills allowing it to inflate like a balloon.
A reflex signal travels back to your bladder, making the detrusor muscle contract slightly and increasing the bladder's pressure so you're aware that it's filling up.
Blood flow is cut off to the cardiac muscle and the oxygen-starved cells start to die within several minutes.
The injured muscle may not be able to pump blood as well, and its rhythm might be thrown off.
The most common symptom is chest pain caused by the oxygen-deprived heart muscle.
They commonly use an electrocardiogram to measure the heart's electrical activity and a blood test to assess heart muscle damage.
These procedures reestablish circulation to the cardiac muscle, restoring heart function.
A healthy diet, avoiding tobacco use, staying fit, and enjoying plenty of sleep and lots of laughter all go a long way in making sure your body's most important muscle keeps on beating.
So while many athletes and performers attribute their successes to muscle memory, muscles themselves don't really have memory.
This unhurried approach to life means that sloths don't need very much muscle.
In fact, they have about 30% less muscle mass than other animals their size.
From astronauts' experiences in space, we know that spending time in a microgravity environment means bone loss, muscle atrophy, cardiovascular problems, among many other complications that range for the physiological to the psychological.
"He felt his own age, forty-four ..." wrote Mailer in "The Armies of the Night," "... felt as if he were a solid embodiment of bone, muscle, heart, mind, and sentiment to be a man, as if he had arrived."
But, if heartburn starts happening regularly, it can weaken the LES muscle over time, letting more and more acid escape.
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