{"id":87078,"date":"2019-01-26T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/muscle-memory-discovery-ends-use-it-or-lose-it-dogma"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T20:02:49","slug":"muscle-memory-discovery-ends-use-it-or-lose-it-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/muscle-memory-discovery-ends-use-it-or-lose-it-dogma","title":{"rendered":"Muscle memory discovery ends \u2018use it or lose it\u2019 dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/muscle-memory-discovery-ends-use-it-or-lose-it-dogma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The old adage \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d tells us: if you stop using your muscles, they\u2019ll shrink. Until recently, scientists thought this meant that nuclei\u2014the cell control centers that build and maintain muscle fibers\u2014are also lost to sloth.<\/p>\n<p>But according to a review published in <i>Frontiers in Physiology<\/i>, modern lab techniques now allow us to see that nuclei gained during training persist even when <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle cells<\/a> shrink due to disuse or start to break down. These residual \u2018myonuclei\u2019 allow more and faster growth when muscles are retrained\u2014suggesting that we can \u201cbank\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle<\/a> growth potential in our teens to prevent frailty in old age. It also suggests that athletes who cheat and grow their muscles with steroids may go undetected.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-muscle-memory-discovery-dogma.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;01-muscle-memory-discovery-dogma.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old adage \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d tells us: if you stop using your muscles, they\u2019ll shrink. Until recently, scientists thought this meant that nuclei\u2014the cell control centers that build and maintain muscle fibers\u2014are also lost to sloth. But according to a review published in Frontiers in Physiology, modern lab techniques now allow us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}