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Re:Minimum Effective Dose by sunshowers on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:48PM (#42959196)
There are two distinct but related phenomena, both called muscle memory: the motor learning you're talking about, and strength training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory_(strength_traini...
Re:Minimum Effective Dose by bmacho on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:56AM (#42959805)
> Doping with anabolic steroids also seem to act partly by recruiting new nuclei.[7][8] It was recently shown in mice[9] that a brief exposure to anabolic steroids recruited new muscle nuclei. When the steroids were withdrawn, the muscle rapidly shrank to normal size, but the extra nuclei remained. After a waiting period of 3 months (about 15% of the mouse lifespan), overload exercise led to a muscle growth of 36% within 6 days in the steroid-exposed group, while control muscles that had never been exposed to steroids grew only insignificantly.

aqueueaqueue probably meant this part ^. If you do steroid once, then you stop doing steroid, its effects remain, according to wiki (in mice).