Do cables need to be re-broken in?

Of course. Only its minutes not months, and movement matters more so than time. In other words your system warms up every night, and all the wire not having signal running through it is a part of that warm up. That's with nothing being moved around. Moving a cable around, all the bending and flexing, it will be a few to several minutes settling in after that. Try it and see.

When the music sounds like it’s slowing down I just rub some Geritol into the cables nice and gentle like. Makes an electron feel like gettin up and going.

DBS is 24/7/365 Geritol for the Dielectric 72 volts for battery, more if device powered, 128 V on my power amps

I just ordered a loom of Triode Wire Labs and the owner Pete G. does a "preliminary" break in on a cable cooker before shipping.  He advised that shipping, uncoiling etc. creates a need for break in at the user end. He also says the "down" time between playing is important for the dielectric to season.

Reverse the polarity and it will reverse the reversal of not being used.