The Starting Blocks

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Strength Bulk and Recovery

Dr. Bruce Miller is a member of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Charter Member of the Aerobics Activity, Center, founder of the Diet Analysis Center, founder of the publication HealthQuest and author of twenty books and videos on nutrition, including “lower Your Cholesterol in 30 Days”.

There Are Three Phases to Building a Muscle

Catabolic: You work out the muscle and break down the fibers.
Recovery: Glucose and amino acids pump into muscle.
Anabolic: Using glucose and amino acids, the muscle rebuilds stronger and larger.


Some Use Steroids to Speed the Three Phases

MINOR SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE: personality changes, sleep disturbances, acne, masculinization for women, breasts for men, and growth reduction for adolescents.

MAJOR SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE: cholesterol imbalance, liver tumors, hepatitis, and leukemia.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to move from catabolism into recovery and muscle/bulk building quickly without the side effects of steroids? You will see a product that does just this after we tell the whole story.

THE WHOLE STORY
1. The muscle cell worked out and is tired. It needs glucose and amino acids to recover and build. 2. Insulin is the main muscle building hormone in the body. It opens the “cell door” to let in all of the nutrients the cell needs. 3. Every door needs a door knob (insulin receptor). The knob is chromium. 4. Once the door is opened a quality mix of glucose, branched chain amino acids, and the rest of the essential amino acids must be available for maximum muscle building bulk, and recovery.

WE NEED TO THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND THREE THINGS
1. Insulin (door opener)
2. Chromium (door knob)
3. The three branched chain amino acids (primary builders).

INSULIN

1. The pancreas needs to be stimulated to produce insulin
2. The main stimulators are:
a. Glucose, the final breakdown product of any carbohydrate.
b. The branched chain amino acids (valine, leucine, and isoleucine).
c. The proper ratio of carbohydrate and protein. Divide the carbohydrate in a product by protein content. A ratio of 2.7 gives excellent insulin stimulation. Look for this ratio in any product you buy.
3. Click here for a product with unique quantity, quality, and ratio of these stimulators resulting in maximum production of the primary strength hormone!

CHROMIUM

1. No matter how much muscle building hormone (door opener) you have available…
No door knob (chromium), no entry.
2. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tells us that 90% of Americans consume diets low in chromium. Athletes use up chromium at a high rate, so they are at extreme risk.
3. There are a number of chromium supplements in various muscle building products, and they work to varying degrees.
Chromic Chloride – Extremely poor utilization
Chromic Acetate – Poor utilization
Chromium Tripicolinate – Some utilization
Chromium Picolinate – Fair utilization
Chromium Nicotinate – Excellent utilization
Click here for the only drink I have found on the market that contains chromium nicotinate!

HOW INSULIN AND CHROMIUM HELP BUILD MUSCLE
Increased uptake of amino acids…both speed and number
Increased assembly of amino acids into muscle protein.

From a sports text: “Insulin’s participation in protein synthesis, or anabolism, is not limited to bringing raw materials into the muscle cell. It also promotes the assembly of amino acids into protein through it effect on the cell’s genetic material, DNA and RNA (similar to the steroids). The net effect of all of this is increased protein available for building muscle tissue. Ten combined with resistance exercise, this results in more muscle development and fat loss. Insulin is the body’s primary anabolic hormone. Testosterone, the substance from which anabolic steroids are derived, does have anabolic effects, but they are secondary to those of insulin.”

THE THREE BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACIDS 9BCAAS)
PLUS THE OTHER 6 ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS

1. Do not buy a muscle building product based on the number of grams of protein. Look at the BCAAs: valine, leucine, and isolleucine.
2. The muscle is 35% BCAAs which are broken down rapidly during a workout.
3. After a workout, the muscle is starved for the BCAAs which also pull in the other 6 essential amino acids needed to build muscle and aid in recovery. The other 6 “spare” or protect the BCAAs.
4. In the first 3 hours after a workout, the BCAAs account for 50% of the total amino acid uptake. That is why you consume a power drink immediately after a workout and then again within 2 hours.
5. This power drink’s amino acids profile is unique:
 There are 10,000mg of essential amino acids in serving
 An astounding 44% of these are BCAAs.
 I know of no other drink with that profile.

From a sports text: “For the athlete, the BCAAs have great promise. They can be used to actually produce better performance. In fact, they are similar to anabolic steroids in their effects on athletic performance, but they have none of the side effects associated with steroids. Besides their tissue sparing properties, they have potent anabolic (building) qualities, and they yield metabolic by-products that boost your energy production for long term sports activities.”

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