They increase the rate of protein synthesis, and decrease the rate of protein degradation in
a resting human muscle (source), Basically, they help your muscles heal and grow.
Not exact matches
But unlike a
human on bed
rest for, say, six months, bears in dormancy don't experience severe
muscle atrophy.
The phenomenon may someday help researchers prevent
muscle degeneration in
humans during bed
rest, limb healing, or space flight.
This suggests that other species, including
humans, are limited more by what our hearts can do than by how fit the
rest of our
muscle are at altitude.»