High Dose NSAID Boosts Muscle Gains in Elderly Men - 11% Increase in Type II Fiber Size, Type I Grew Only 'on' Tylenol
Are NSAIDs over-the-counter anabolics from the pharmacy next door? Even though this is not the first SuppVersity article about the effects of NSAIDs or COX-inhibitors like Aspirin, Tylenol, Pain-Eze and co., I would like to highlight one again that the existing evidence suggests differential effects in young(er) vs. old(er) individuals, with the former seeing no or detrimental and the latter no or beneficial effects when using NSAIDs during resistance training regimen. It is thus neither guaranteed, nor likely that a young man or woman would see the same 28% extra-increase in type I fiber and 11% extra-increase in type II fiber diameter, Trappe et al. describe in their soon-to-be-published paper in the journal of the Gerontological Society of America (Trappe. 2016). The link to hormesis research is far from being straight-forward Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? Even Ice-Baths Impair the Adapt. Process Vit C+E Impair Muscle Gain...