muscle growth using electrical pulses, truth or fiction?
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i'll have to say fiction for the muscle growing part.. it does somewhat tone your muscles but is not good for you. \n\ni tried it and went back to old fashioned crunches and push-up because it messed up my abs... and my digesting system was upset.. dont know why but it was.. gave it another shot, same thing happened again.\n\nso please dont try these...
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impulse movement without stimulation
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At fifteen years of age, creatin will not help you, and using ANY "steroids" is not smart as your body is still developing NATUARALLY. Using anything similar to a steroid can actually hinder the "natural growth" of your body...\n\nBut here's the info you were looking for:\n\nCreatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells.\n\nIt is public knowledge that meat (which has a lot of creatine) enhanced performance long before modern science discovered creatine. The big winner in the 480 B.C. Olympic Games said he ate nothing but meat for 10 months prior to the Games to get ready.\n\nIn 1832, the French scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered a component of skeletal muscle that he later named creatine after the Greek word for flesh, Kreas.\n\nIn 1912, researchers found that ingesting creatine can dramatically boost the creatine content of the muscle. In the late 1920s, scientists found that the intramuscular stores of creatine can be increased by ingesting creatine in larger than normal amounts, discovered creatine phosphate, and determined that creatine is a key player in the metabolism of skeletal muscle.\n\nThe Russians and other Eastern Bloc countries may have used creatine as a sports supplement as far back as the 1970s, although this is a matter of debate.\n\nWhile creatine's influence on physical performance has been well documented since the early twentieth century, it only recently came into public view following the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. An August 7, 1992 article in The Times reported that Linford Christie, the gold medal winner at 100 meters, had utilized creatine prior to the Olympics, and an article in Bodybuilding Monthly named Sally Gunnell, gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles, as another creatine user. Several medal-winning British rowers also used creatine during their preparations for the Barcelona games.\n\nAt the time, low-potency creatine supplements were available in Britain, but creatine supplements designed for strength enhancement were not commercially available until 1993 when a company called EAS (Exercise, Atheletics, Strength) introduced the compound to the sports nutrition market under the name Phosphagen. In 1998, the launch of the first creatine-carbohydrate-alpha lipoic acid supplement, Cell-Tech, by another company called MuscleTech Research and Development, took place. Alpha lipoic acid enhances muscle phosphocreatine levels and total muscle creatine concentrations. This approach to creatine supplementation was validated in a study performed in 2003 by Burke et al., of the Department of Human Kinetics at St. Francis Xavier University. Another important event in creatine supplementation occurred in 2004 when the first creatine ethyl ester supplements were launched. To date, the most extensively researched brand-name creatine supplement is Cell-Tech, with three published studies on the actual product (Parise, G., et al. 2000,. Kalman, D., et al., and 2000 Tarnopolsky et al, 2001). Both Phosphagen and Cell-Tech still remain widely used by athletes around the world.\n\nCreatine Ethyl Ester (CEE) is becoming a widely used form of creatine, with many companies now carrying both creatine monohydrate-based supplements and Creatine Ethyl Ester supplements, or combinations of both. CEE is touted to have absorbtion rates tens of times higher than regular creatine monohydrate by several supplement companies. Creatine monohydrate ($400 million in annual sales in the United States alone) remains the most used form of creatine.\n\nSynthesis\nIn the human body creatine is synthesized mainly in the liver by the use of parts from three different amino acids - arginine, glycine, and methionine. 95% of it is later stored in the skeletal muscles, with the rest in the brain, heart, and testes.\n\nThe enzyme GATM (Guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase, also known as L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT),
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The cell membrane in the axon and soma contain voltage-gated ion channels which allow the neuron to generate and propagate an electrical impulse known as an action potential.\n\nSubstantial early knowledge of neuron electrical activity came from experiments with squid giant axons. In 1937, John Zachary Young suggested that the giant squid axon might be used to better understand nerve cells [2]. Since they are much larger than human neurons, but similar in nature, it was easier to study them with less advanced technology at that time. By inserting electrodes into the giant squid axons, accurate measurements could be made of the membrane potential.\n\nElectrical activity can be produced in neurons by a number of stimuli. Pressure, stretch, chemical transmitters, and electrical current passing across the nerve membrane as a result of a potential difference in voltage all can initiate nerve activity [3].\n\nThe narrow cross-section of axons lessens the metabolic expense of carrying action potentials, however thicker axons convey the impulses more rapidly. In order to minimize metabolic expense yet maintain a rapid conduction velocity, many neurons have insulating sheaths of myelin around their axons. The sheaths are formed by glial cells: oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system and Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system. The sheath enables the action potentials to travel faster than in unmyelinated axons of the same diameter whilst simultaneously spending less energy to "recharge" the action potential after. The myelin sheath in peripheral nerves normally runs along the axon in sections about 1 mm long, punctuated by unsheathed nodes of Ranvier which contain a high density of voltage-gated ion channels. Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disorder which results from abnormal demyelination of peripheral nerves. Neurons with demyelinated axons do not conduct electrical signals properly.\n\nps. I think I deserve some points
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Ha, that's a good one.  Do some searches on ogoplex, roplex, and viacil supplements.  There's a combination of saw palmetto and other herbs that actually can work very well...maybe not quite Peter North well but it makes a difference.  Also - testosterone boosting supplements help as well.  Vitrix is one of the high quality/potency tribulus tablets that is used for promoting muscle growth.  It works by tricking your body into creating more testosterone.  I think you can see the correlation here.  I have a few friends in their 50's that are swearing by this combination, as well as adding some L-arginine or nitric oxide supplements.  It worked well enough to get them to give up the viagra, so I'd say it's pretty effective.
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There's a great program, its called Air ALERT III, but it is not, I repeat, NOT, easy. If you like, I have the whole program on my computer, so I could e-mail it to you (only if you want it). It has exercises such as Calf Raises, Squat Hops, Burnouts... etc. I think it guarantees about 4 in. minimum... I heard someone gained about 12 inches at my school.
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I use a "Tens Unit" to send small electrical charges into my skin, muscle and nerves to block pain. Larger units are used at Physical Therapy Institutions for the same purpose.
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Psychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz.\n\nPhysiological\nBurns: Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation: A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (eg, via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects: Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied).\n\nThe recommended first aid for someone who had received a severe electrical shock has three major components:\n1) Call for help \n2) Make sure the victim is no longer in contact with the electrical current source. Turn off all power if this can be done quickly. \n3) Check for breathing and heart beat and apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary \n\n[Also] "the human body is not much of a resistor. Rather, it is a fairly good conductor of electricity because the fluids in our bodies are solutions of salts and ions which readily enable electricity to flow."\n\nMore information and details can be found in the links below.
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Pt is one of the best, but you really just need something more  noble than what you're seperating.  just look at a chart of standard electrode potentials to pick your best
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I only find information in german. It relates to a medical therapie where electricity of a certain strength is used to relax muscles and it also shows influence on the cell membranes. The theory is that a electrical current has an effect on the polarization of cellembranes and after a certain time intervall this leads to a de-polarization effect which then has certain effects on the cell (e.g. musle relaxation) Gildemeister developed a scientific model to explain this is in detail.\n\nIn Germany "electo-therapie" is commonly used by several doctors.\n\nIf you like to know more I would have to translate the articles I found and can send you. Let me know under my email.
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Nope. It's a myth. In fact, regular exercise during one's growing years actually promotes the production of growth hormones. Height is predominantly decided by your genes. Pullups are the best bet to do what little you can to increase your height. Or if thats too difficult, simply hang from a bar.
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Exercise develop muscles tone
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This sounds something like the dynamic tension exercises advocated by Charles Atlas. You can still get his bodybuilding program off the net. www.charlesatlas.com
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EMG's ... especially 81's
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Animal muscle tissue is fascinating, when you learn how it works or "clenches". The process by which muscle clenche and release seems rather complicated to learn about.  But, it's worth it.  I believe there's a possibility for alternative energy stemming from the principles for how muscles work.  I wish all engineers had to learn about anatomy and physiology.  Here are the three easiest sites I could find. You might buy a used entry level human anatomy and physiology textbook and just start at the beginning, don't try to remember all the names of everything.  But start with cells and move up to muscle tissue early in the text. It's amazing stuff. Excellent question and sense of curiosity:\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_contraction\nhttp://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Muscles.html
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while im not 100% certain i would say yes they did, my bro met ronnie a few months ago, my bro has been workin out for body building for about 3 years and while he has gotten big, he is nowhere near ronnie and arnolds size, and id say either they are both genetically superhuman, or were takin roids at one time or another, but to be absolutely fair, when arnold was lifting roids werent considered as taboo as they are today, considering the lack of scientific technology that we have today and the extra 30 years of research and seeing what long term use does to the body
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Absolutely not.  For one thing, transplants like that are often risky, resulting in immune responses to it.  Second, even if it did happen successfully, there is no point.  Muscles are simply cells of myosin and actin filaments contracting.  I'm not sure whether it's possible to get the nervous connections working, most likely not.  But besides that point, it's about control of muscles, which lies in YOUR nervous system rather than in the muscle, which has no control over movement, it just contracts.