Newly discovered muscle protein could make you a beefcake without working out

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Newly discovered muscle protein could make you a beefcake without working out

Lots of people are always trying to figure out new ways to build muscle mass, but it turns out that by simply turning off a single protein, the human body could potentially build a tremendous amount of muscle in a short period of time, without much exercise at all.

Grb10 is the protein in question, and researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have found that disrupting the gene responsible for it can cause crazy boosts in muscle mass. That’s right, it seems that you need to get rid of it, not get more of it. In the study, published in The FASEB Journal, a group of mice with a disrupted Grb10 gene were far more muscular than their control counterparts, both at birth and during adulthood.

There are, of course, some caveats. In this study, the whole beefcake-ifying process started in the womb, so there’s no hope you could get the same treatment. These are also mice, not men. Nonetheless, this all points to an important protein that, in the future, could be extremely valuable in the treatment of people with muscle-wasting diseases, like muscular dystrophy or type-2 diabetes.

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