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RE: All About Muscles - Part 3: Muscle Growth
Hello @tfcoates nice series on all about muscles! Since I love genetics and you do mention "it's all in the genes" I thought you would be interested in an evolutionary conserved muscle regulator (an inhibitor of muscle) called myostatin. Mice, dogs, bulls and humans that carry mutations in the myosatin gene develop incredible muscle mass apparently without exercise.
Here is link to a paper on the myostatin gene.
And some incredible pictures from the Wikipedia:
Nice! Yeah I knew of the old Belgian Blue bulls, they were the next big thing for a while, till they weren't lol.
I'll write more about this next time, but thanks for giving me some cool resources :P