Muscle memory is not as you think

We all want To see if we can return to the shape after injury, disease, or long stopping. The muscles adapt to the environment: they grow when we put work and shrink when we stop. But what if we could help them remember how to grow?

As a rule, biologists in the cells do not enter their careers by running through glove from first -class professional sports. But in the years in which Adam Charpeels played as a front in the UK Football League, he found himself wondering about the cell mechanisms that helped the muscles to grow after different types of exercises.

Putting the front row in Pro Rugby means that it should be, “very large”, as Adam said. “I was in the gym is the highest weights from the age of 12, I think,” he says.

He spent a lot of his teenage life in training. When he was 19 years old, he was playing a boxing day match on innate ground that was heavy foot. He just planted his foot when he treated a player in the opposing team, and reached the top of his body to the left. His right foot remained stuck in the mud.

“This is when I tore my ACL, but I don’t remember much about it. My father should ask,” Adam told me with a sarcastic smile. “He can tell you the minute, in great detail: When that happened, how it happened.” (Sports, I remember, it has the wonderful ability to be a love language.)

Adam took a year of the rugby and continued to study, and continued a master’s degree in human physical function. He was always curious about muscles and muscle growth, but the gap gave him time to think – the Runbi players were not in the PRO game, and they were good knowledge, in short professions. This recognition ultimately led to a PhD in muscle cell biology.

When we talk about muscle memory, we most of the time we refer to the way our bodies seem to remember how to do things that we did not do at some point – raising a bike, saying, or doing a complex dance we learned in childhood. When you learn and repeat some movements over time, this movement pattern becomes depressed and regular, as well as the nerve cell release pattern that controls that movement. The memory of how this procedure is performed in our motor nerve cells, not in the actual muscles concerned. But as Adam has passed his academic training, he became more interested in the issue of whether the muscles themselves have a memory at the cellular and genetic level.

After nearly two decades, Adam teachs and runs a laboratory at the Norwegian School of Mathematical Sciences in Oslo. In 2018, his research group was the first in the world to show that the muscle of the human skeleton has a genetic memory for muscle growth after exercise.

Lagina It refers to changes in the genetic expression caused by behavior and the environment. The genes themselves do not change, but the way they work. When the weights are raised, for example, the small molecules called methyl groups from the outside are separated from certain genes, making them more vulnerable to operation and production of proteins that affect muscle growth. These changes still exist. If you start lifting weights again, you will add muscle mass more quickly than before. In other words, your muscles remember how to do this: they have a permanent molecular memory for previous exercises that make them ready to respond to exercise, even after a period for months. ((Cellular Muscle memory, on the other hand, works slightly differently from the Memory of Lagin muscles. Exercise stimulates muscle stem cells to contribute to their nuclei to the growth and repair of the muscles, and the memory of cellular muscles indicates how long these nuclei roam for a period of time in muscle fibers – even after periods of lack of activity – and help accelerate the return to growth once you start training again.)