Muscle soreness, supplementation and inflamation

Here are a few studies looking at ways to decrease muscle soreness and potentially increase perofrmance along with the role of inflammation.
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Do you need to induce muscle damage for growth?


Liquid carbohydrate/essential amino acid ingestion during a short-term bout of resistance exercise suppresses myofibrillar protein degradation.

The effect of a carbohydrate and protein supplement on resistance exercise performance, hormonal response, and muscle damage.

Effect of carbohydrate intake during recovery from eccentric exercise on interleukin-6 and muscle-damage markers.

Changes in inflammatory mediators following eccentric exercise of the elbow flexors.

Systemic inflammatory response to exhaustive exercise. Cytokine kinetics.