Why don’t our tongues grow like other muscles since we’re always moving them?
In: Biology
Muscles grow through a process of progressive overload. E.g. If you perform a bicep curl one week with a 20-pound dumbbell, and then a 30-pound dumbbell next week, so on so on, that muscle will eventually grow.
The tongue is not generally progressively overloaded, because the pattern of muscle use is mostly the same day to day. No change in activity = no change in muscle growth.
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