[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

[KönigTiger]

Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[FrozenMonkey]

trenbolone anyone?

[MonstrositY]

Originally Posted by ziggity

oh, it doesn't?

my genetics disease lecturer needs to get his shit upto date.

[MonstrositY]

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

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.

[MonstrositY]

Originally Posted by RytroSpyk

I thought they just bred the biggest muscular cows and so on. Guess I was wrong.

they do that too.

[ATXfightfan]

Thanks, man. Very interesting video and follow up information from everyone.

ATX

[ATXfightfan]

By the way, anyone know if the beef produced by such cows would be overly tough and lacking in delicious marbleing?

[Snowblind]

Originally Posted by MonstrositY

its's a genetic disease called double muscle.

here's a dog that has it



no it doesn't happen in humans

Not right my friend. The dog is an effect of a genetic mutation not selective breeding, and yes all people with natural large muscle mass have genetics that allow for it.