Even if you spend your whole life working to get ripped, you can't exercise forever. As you age, there are a variety of conditions that can pop up that can impede your ability to build muscle, and then there aren't a whole lot of options for what you can do. Recently, researchers stated that they may be close to solving this problem, as they have created super strong mice by tweaking just one gene.
"There are now ways to develop drugs for people who are unable to exercise due to obesity or other health complications, such as diabetes, immobility and frailty," said researcher Ronald Evans.
The scientists found that one gene is responsible for regulating the strength of our muscles. Once they were aware of this fact, the researchers were able to manipulate the gene and create mice that had muscles twice as strong as the average rodent.
Researchers hope that this will lead to the development of medications and supplements that fight muscle weakness in the elderly, and even potential treatments for muscular dystrophy.
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