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Muscle Atrophy / Muscle Wasting
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Also known as: muscle atrophy · muscle wasting · muscle breakdown · muscle regression · amyotrophy · muscle loss · muscles becoming thinner · muscle attenuation · SMA
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Muscles waste when they are no longer used. That is not a punishment and not a defect — it is one of the clearest rules by which the body operates. What you use, it builds up. What you leave unused, it breaks down. An arm in a cast loses visible mass within a few weeks. A leg that is rested after an injury grows thinner. A person confined to bed for days stands up weaker at the end than when they lay down. This is not an accident — it is a principle.
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