Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:28 in Health & Medicine

GALVESTON, Texas -- When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes -- a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known function.

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