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Originally Posted by kokoro
its called myostatin and in normal people, myostatin regulates how much muscle you have. More naturally muscular people have less and skinny or smaller people have more.
Its gonna be crazy when they develope the myostatin-blocker drug and it gets out into either the suppliment or black market... I know I'm getting some!
The cows you see are a result of selective breeding of the cows without the myostatin gene... I think they're called Belgian Blues or something.
Interestingly, it does have a negative side-effect. I just read that if you inhibit myostatin, you increase the chance strongly of tearing the tendons connecting muscle to bone. So in essence you "overpower" your tendons if you have too much muscle from myostatin inhibitors. Also myostatins other job is to create stretchy and springy tendons to act as a buffer between the muscles and skeletal system. So there is a dark side to it... sure you'd get huge, but you'll have brittle tendons and under extreme tension, you could damage or tear your tendons bad.
Also.. reading about the muscled racing whippets, it seems although they are huge, they don't perform better than their myostatin carrying brothers.
Best,
Kokoro
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obviously excessive mass is not a good thing for mobility and durability.
theres a compromisation between speed/strength. look at ronnie coleman for example, the guy can bearly walk lol.
double muscle is not a good thing to have.