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this is not true. swelling = bloodflow, repairing damage (?) is literally how muscles grow. if youve got bloodflow to the muscle (swelling) and microtears being repaired, you are almost certainly building muscle so long as you are eating a caloric surplus. ESPECIALLY in your first few months.

cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publicati... link.springer.com/article/10.1... Feel free to show yours.

the first paper has nothing to do with your claim, and the third says its contradictory to established theory in the beginning "It has been proposed that skeletal muscle shows signs of resistance training (RT)-induced muscle hypertrophy much earlier (i.e., ~3–4 weeks of RT) than previously thought"