Exercise transforms your muscles into powerful communication hubs that orchestrate health benefits throughout your entire body. A major new review reveals how skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine ...

Do you experience aching, throbbing or tight muscle pain that doesn’t seem to be relieved by at-home remedies? Myofascial release, a therapeutic pain relief therapy, might help alleviate those ...

Weight-loss drugs like semaglutide may melt fat, but at the cost of muscle mass. A new review reveals how to protect your strength while reaping the benefits. Study: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor ...

What if your muscles could make a molecule that slows aging? New research (Kang et al., 2025), published in Nature Communications, suggests that they can. This youth-boosting myokine is called CLCF1.

Researchers engineered mice with a mutation (E3896A) in the RyR1 calcium-binding site, eliminating calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) without affecting depolarization-induced calcium release. The ...

The exponential rise of our aging population. The pandemic. The explosion of GLP-1s. It’s a trifecta that’s making muscle — and the serious implications of not having enough of it — part of a larger ...