Tag: Muscle

What is Red Light Therapy? Red-light therapy is a treatment that uses near-infrared light to facilitate the stimulation and healing of skin, hair, muscle, and connective tissue. It does so by exposing the body to low-level near-infrared light that can be seen, unlike infrared light which people c...

Those people that you see in the gym never make any gains. After five years of seeing them most days working out, they still look like they don’t even lift. #dadbodsforlife They plod around and barely break a sweat. When they do, it’s doing some weird shit. This might be you....

If you live in Oxford, cycling is difficult to avoid. But as anyone new to the city can attest, hopping back on a saddle for the first time in years to weave through the narrow busy streets can be a daunting prospect. Luckily, the old saying holds true: it really is like learning to ride a bike. Man...

The onset of muscle fatigue has hampered many athletes from achieving their maximum potential. The lactic acid buildup is a byproduct of anaerobic metabolism. Under normal activity levels, the body mostly relies on aerobic metabolism and hence lactate (another name for lacti...

Frailty and Metabolic Syndrome cast gaunt (and flabby) shadows over our aging world; the need for new therapeutics has never been so urgent. Follistatin gene therapy addresses two pressing epidemics: frailty from sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) and Metabolic Syndrome — a constellation ...