Posts with tag #Inflammation

A nerve axon depending on a sodium gradient to fire

Why nerves misfire when you only drink water

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A nerve fires on a sodium gradient. Drinking only water during long effort can wash that gradient down.

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Muscle the day after a long effort, sore locally rather than systemically inflamed

What the day-after ache is actually signaling

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The soreness after a long effort is not the same signal as chronic inflammation, and muscle IL-6 is not a fire alarm.

#Inflammation