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Body building is the ultimate expression of anabolic study known to man. It is the pursuit of increasing and maintaining protein structures within oneself. It usually concentrates on improving skeletal muscle mass, but the ancillary benefits may go well beyond big bulging biscepts. These include physical and psychological components; - strength
- vitality
- confidence
- libido
- increased cardiac mass
- improved fat metabolism
- improved glucose metabolism
- improved hormone balance
- sexier looking
- healthier appearance
- increased internal organ mass
Anabolism is both, natural, and life affirming. It's opposite is both, natural, and life threatening. The body building philosophy is to construct, and minimize destruction of protein tissues, and above all it is anabolic. Human muscle cells are puny when compared with those of animals, and there is good reason for it. We are the only ones of three animals that lack the particular enzyme to manufacture vitamin C for ourselves, monkeys and guinea pigs are the other two. If you look at a microscope slide of a human muscle cell versus that of a great ape then you will see how truly dwarfed we are in comparison in physical strength. So you better not get into a fist fight with a grizzly bear, you simply cannot compete with animals pound for pound. The reason for this is the lacking enzyme to produce vitamin C. Eskimos didn't have science or research projects to explain things to them, but they knew what to do, and they only had instinct. The eskimos didn't have enough plant based nutrients in their diets to get their vitamin C from. All of their food produced vitamin C unlike their own bodies but when they cooked the meat they also destroyed the vitamin C content. And if you have no vitamin C content in your diet then you have scurvy. All collagenic structures need vitamin C to form and with scurvy all your connective tissue deteriorates and you literally fall apart. That is why eskiomos eat raw meat. Human blood vessels and capillaries are collagenic structures, and all collagenic structures require vitamin C in order to form. The diameter of cell growth is linear but the volume grows geometrically, so the larger a cell becomes, the more and more increasingly difficult it is to maintain the nutrient/waste exchange. Blood flow to larger cells is both critical and the greatest limiting factor for cell growth. More capilaries and veins are then needed to do the work. To grow and maintain tissue mass you need blood flow and lots of it and so you need vitamin C! You might be thinking that the body can overcome this by simply producing more muscle cells, but it doesn't. Skeletal muscle cells, just like brain cells and neurons stop duplicating when you are about 3 years old. From that point your body will never duplicate any more of them. Once skeletal muscle cells and neurons die, they are never replaced. You have the same number of both that you have had since you were 3 and you will never replace the ones you lose. Increasing muscle size or promoting neuron health, can only happen via one route within an adult, that is to increase cell size and not to increase the number of cells. If your mind and body is not functioning as well as it used to then this might be attributable to diet and exercise? Eat protein rich foods and make sure you are ingesting enough vitamin C and exercise at least 35 minutes a week. velis et remis Robert http://www.energymedicinesite.org/ mailto:robert@energymedicinesite.org
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