I'll talk more
about myostatin and follistatin next, but for now just know that the holy grail of building muscle is to inhibit myostatin.
Of course, we've known
about myostatin for a while now, and we knew that if we somehow succeeded in blocking it, we could have amazing muscle gains with reduced gym time, as well as significantly reduced risk of heart or kidney illnesses.
Not exact matches
The Genetic Edge's Binns, who also published a research paper laying claim to the
myostatin finding
about a year after Hill did, says half of the 10 or so Kentucky Derby winners his company tested had two copies of the sprint version of the
myostatin gene.
Mstn − / − mice carrying a follistatin transgene had
about four times the muscle mass of wild type mice, demonstrating the existence of other regulators of muscle mass with similar activity to
myostatin.
According to these studies, less
myostatin also means
about 15 % longer life.
The Hulmi study showed that the ingestion of protein right after lifting weights or any other resistance exercise will actually drop your
myostatin production for
about an hour.
After
about 48 and 72 hours, even though the satellite cells and the
myostatin levels got back to their baseline values in the group that ate more protein, the levels remained lower for a longer period in the group that ate less protein.