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Medical Oddities: Muscle Memory Before Birth? 

When dad trains offspring gain, bar tricks can end in the OR, guts that linger, empathetic pain, and “natural” immune traps this week.

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    Paternal endurance training alters metabolic traits in offspring.

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    Liquid nitrogen cocktails can cause severe gastric injuries.

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    IBS prevalence among young adults shows persistence in symptoms from adolescence.

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    Visceral pain invokes stronger empathetic responses compared to somatic pain.

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    Green tea extract may have harmful proinflammatory immune effects despite popular belief.

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Medical Oddities: Muscle Memory Before Birth? 

When dad trains offspring gain, bar tricks can end in the OR, guts that linger, empathetic pain, and “natural” immune traps this week.

  • by Teraya Smith

  • February 4, 2026

  • 5 min

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