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> I'm just saying you need to take steps to avoid muscle loss.

Do you have any evidence that long term lifestyle isn’t going to result in similar levels of strength?

> if hyperplasia even occurs in adult humans

It definitely occurs in other mammal muscle and some human tissue, and there’s studies supporting it occurring in human muscle. Myofibre splitting for example definitely occurs. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16625366/

I’ll admit there’s controversy here, but I think the default position should be human biology is similar to other mammals unless someone demonstrates otherwise. Otherwise our unwillingness to preform experiments on humans and the expense of primate experimentation is going to create a scientific bias.



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