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Kai Hvatum
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I just got the latest issue of science news, it has an in-depth article about the child recently born in Germany who lacks the gene which enables us to produce myostatin. That means he's ripped even without lifting! Here's a snippit, Interesting stuff...
Mr.Universe Jr.
Childs Gene Mutation Confirms Protein's Role in Human-muscle Growth
"Find the kid a sports agent. Researchers studying an unusually muscular tot have found that he has gene mutations similiar to ones that produce abnormally brawny cattle and mice. Less-sever variations in the same gene may underlie the sucess of some athletes, the scientists speculate,
The boy's mutations drupt both copies of the gene encoding a muscle protein called myostatin. Previous studies of the gene in animals had suggested that myostatin restrains muscle growth during development and adult life. But scientists didn't know whether the protein serves the same function in people....
In fact, nutritional supplements that claim to block myostatin are already being sold, primarily to bodybuilders. 'That's all rubbish. We tested [one] and it doesn't work,' warns Schuelke."
Both of the parent's of the boy turn out to be hardcore athletes, the mother was a sprinter, and the father was a weightlifter. A modified gene delivered through Gene Therapy is already in Human Trials for Muscular Dystrophy patients, hopefully this will one day be available for the general public!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021126072241.htm
Mr.Universe Jr.
Childs Gene Mutation Confirms Protein's Role in Human-muscle Growth
"Find the kid a sports agent. Researchers studying an unusually muscular tot have found that he has gene mutations similiar to ones that produce abnormally brawny cattle and mice. Less-sever variations in the same gene may underlie the sucess of some athletes, the scientists speculate,
The boy's mutations drupt both copies of the gene encoding a muscle protein called myostatin. Previous studies of the gene in animals had suggested that myostatin restrains muscle growth during development and adult life. But scientists didn't know whether the protein serves the same function in people....
In fact, nutritional supplements that claim to block myostatin are already being sold, primarily to bodybuilders. 'That's all rubbish. We tested [one] and it doesn't work,' warns Schuelke."
Both of the parent's of the boy turn out to be hardcore athletes, the mother was a sprinter, and the father was a weightlifter. A modified gene delivered through Gene Therapy is already in Human Trials for Muscular Dystrophy patients, hopefully this will one day be available for the general public!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021126072241.htm
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. A dietary method would be nice, and a few supplement companies claim to have one, but none of them are actually effective. Gene Therapy would in the end be easier probably, because you could just do one self injection and then that area of your body would have the modified genes until cell apoptosis, which for muscle fibers would take at least a few years. 
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