In the short-term, hypertrophy training causes microtrauma to the muscle, making it break down and leading to tiny tears.

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The body carefully balances muscle atrophy and muscle hypertrophy in response to stimuli such as starvation or immobilization. Three new studies point to Akt1 phosphorylation of the transcription ...

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WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

New treatments for cardiac hypertrophy, a thickening of the heart in response to pressure overload, could potentially treat or even reverse the condition after a new breakthrough discovery identified ...