Science Round-Up Seconds: NAC Reduces Inflammation, Muscle Injury & Cytokine Expression, but Impairs Anabolic Signaling, Satellite Cell Activity and Recovery
Inflammatory cytokines won't build muscle, but without them your body won't notice that it's time to adapt. As a SuppVersity student and listener of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio, you will be well aware of the fact that "inflammation" is a pretty loosely - or, I should say, lousily - defined and largely misunderstood term. What most people think of, when they hear the word has little to do with our bodies cytokine reponse (which is "inflammation") and is all about oxidative stress, which is one of the triggers of the release of cytokine. This is a process of which you've already learned that it plays a vitally important role in our bodies' ability to appropriately react to the wear and tear each and every of our cells is exposed to day by day, month by month and year by year. In fact, the misunderstood "inflammation" is a vital necessity to avoid the development of cancer. After all, it is the inflammator...