"Exercise Induced Muscle Damage: What is it, what causes it and what are the nutritional solutions?" with Dr Daniel Owens and Professor Kevin Tipton
We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast
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Are You Trying to Reduce Muscle Damage?
Muscle damage is caused mostly by eccentric contractions, or lengthening muscle contractions. This can lead to an uncontrolled increasing in calcium into the cell. The mito cell can kind of take that up to an extent and even mitocondura at some point are going to become overloaded with this calcium. And then we just end up with more calcium pouring back into the psycoplasm within the body. But i'm looking forward to revealing what it's like when you're not able to do these types of exercises for a long period of time.
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