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"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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The Role of Satellite Cells in Muscle Repair

Satelite sells aret t they're essentially justus the stem cells of the muscle. They usually lie around in this dormant state, ready to take action when they need to. This can be actually triggered by the immune system. So once the immune system's done its job, it can release some factors which signal the satellite cells to sort of reach the site of damagean contribute nucleia and to the muscle and start to repairi so they're really importante for muscle repair.

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