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Researchers solve key part of old mystery in generating muscle mass

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have solved a key part of a muscle regeneration mystery plaguing scientists for years, adding strong support to the theory that muscle mass can be built without ...

Medical research created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

No workout? No worries: Scientists prevent muscle loss in mice, despite disease and inactivity

If you want big muscles without working out, there's hope. In the March 2012 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from the University of Florida report that a family of protein transcription factors, called "Forkhead (F ...

Medical research created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Hulk' protein, Grb10, controls muscle growth

Scientists have moved closer toward helping people grow big, strong muscles without needing to hit the weight room. Australian researchers have found that by blocking the function of a protein called Grb10 while mice were ...

Medical research created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Red wine: Exercise in a bottle?

As strange as it sounds, a new research study published in the FASEB Journal, suggests that the "healthy" ingredient in red wine, resveratrol, may prevent the negative effects that spaceflight and sedentary lifestyles have o ...

Health created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Foods rich in protein, dairy products help dieters preserve muscle and lose belly fat: study

New research suggests a higher-protein, lower-carbohydrate energy-restricted diet has a major positive impact on body composition, trimming belly fat and increasing lean muscle, particularly when the proteins come from dairy ...

Health created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Loss of weight associated with chronic illness may soon have first treatment

Patients with cancer, heart disease and other chronic illness struggle not only with complications inherent to their disease, they also experience an involuntary loss of weight and muscle mass triggered by ...

Medical research created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Obesity epidemic in America found significantly worse than previously believed

The scope of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been greatly underestimated, according to a study published Apr. 2 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers found that the Body Mass Index (BMI) substantially under- ...

Health created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Exercise improves memory, thinking after stroke, study finds

Just six months of exercise can improve memory, language, thinking and judgment problems by almost 50 per cent, says a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress.

Cardiology created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Which nutritional factors help preserve muscle mass, strength and performance in seniors?

Sarcopenia, or the gradual loss of muscle mass, is a common consequence of ageing, and poses a significant risk factor for disability in older adults. As muscle strength plays an important role in the tendency to fall, sarcopenia ...

Health created Jan 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lift weights, eat mustard, build muscles?

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that rats fed homobrassinolide, found in the mustard plant, produced an anabolic effect, and increased appetite and muscle mass, as well as the number and size of muscle fibers.

Medical research created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New clues to muscle wasting in elderly people

Permanent disconnection between nerves and muscles may be the reason behind progressive loss of muscle mass and function in elderly people, Perth-based researchers have found.

Medical research created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Older men with higher testosterone levels lose less muscle mass as they age

A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that higher levels of testosterone were associated with reduced loss of lean muscle mass in older ...

Medical research created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Building muscle without heavy weights

Weight training at a lower intensity but with more repetitions may be as effective for building muscle as lifting heavy weights says a new opinion piece in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

Health created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fish oil key in preventing sarcopenia in the elderly?

Presented last week at the British Science Festival, a new study by University of Aberdeen scientists will examine if the consumption of fish oil combined with weight training exercises could help protect ...

Health created Sep 10, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New hope for early diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's

Flinders University researchers have discovered that a protein in the brain may play a role in the development of Parkinson's disease – a common degenerative neurological disorder which affects the control of body movements.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Feb 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast