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Muscle, and the sarco- words

Myostatin

The brake on muscle growth. Cattle, whippets and at least one documented child lack it and are visibly, enormously muscled — and blocking it has so far added bulk without adding function.

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The brake on muscle growth. Cattle, whippets and at least one documented child lack it and are visibly, enormously muscled — and blocking it has so far added bulk without adding function.

This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.

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