Myostim moved

[Damien Voorhees]

I had this in the wrong forum!

I just read about 'Myostim' from Champion and it seems like a breakthrough. The last post on this website re myostatin inhibitors was a year ago. Is there an update on efficacy and safety? Champion Nutrition described their myostatin inhibitor called 'Myostim' as follows:

>>>The eternal question: Do muscle cells divide or just get bigger?

Under the right influences can you force muscle cells to divide? This new research shows that by controlling myostatin you can actually do something even better!! When you suppress myostatin prior to training three things happen:

Satellite cells begin dividing rapidly - when myostatin is suppressed. Satellite cells used to be thought of as just embryonic cells that played little role in the adult. Now they are know to be the key to muscle growth!

Satellite cells convert to Myoblast cells. Myoblasts become very active - when myostatin is suppressed

Myoblasts bind to muscle cells and add new nuclei to the muscle cell - this is what allows a mature muscle cell to grow bigger (the size of a muscle cell is directly related to the number of nuclei it has).

Myoblasts begin producing microtubules that form the membranes of brand new muscle cells! Myoblasts add nuclei to these microtubules and a new muscle cell is born.>>

What is Champion's research? Have them prove this to us! /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Damien Voorhees]

I did find a small review of Myostim and the company selling it [ http://www.nicemuscle.com/myostim-78879.htm ] has discontinued sales:

>>>Myostim Failure
Done a 5 month run of Champion's Myostim. Sadly, zero results. No muscle gain, and no fat loss. The injectable follistatin in the mice research was fantastic! The animals blew up to 3 times their muscle mass in a year. Unfortunately, the oral supplements have no effect. If only they could come up with a supplement that could mimic follistatin, even slightly (say 30%) we'd be in the money. Looks like that day is still far away.>>>

[Bahir]

My sources tells me that it's pretty much useless because the body uses the seaweed extract substance (that myostim is made of) for other things that to just supress myostatin, so that that the amounts of seaweed extract that actually gets used for the purpose we want is very, very small, and thus, it has no effect.