Campeon said:
There is no evidence to suggest that high protein diets help in bodybuilding...
you want proof? here you go....i asked a friend of mine, who happens to be a nuerosurgeon to print me up some proof, so here goes
Anyway, it’s simple. Muscle fibers don’t reproduce, I guess you that already. When you induce a muscle fiber into stress you cause hypertrophy (from the Greek trofe, meaning nutrition or growth) which you know as well. But this hypertrophy has nothing to do with a bigger number of cells, but with bigger cells and specially, a bigger amount of extra cellular matrix. What’s the main component of fibrous matrix? Collagen. What the hell is collagen composed of? Yeah, you’re right, protein!! Yes, it’s true, you can synthesize protein mono blocks (amino acids) in your body, except for three of them (I don’t remember exactly right now, but lecithin and methyonine are two ot those, I’m only missing one. Although there are supposed to be 20 essential amino acids, in certain circumstances it’s possible for your body to produce 17 of those). But you need nitrogen from any source to do so. The only available source of nitrogen your body can use is external nitrogen. Yes, you’re right, from protein in your diet. I would really like to know how your guy finds his nitrogen sources.
Collagen is in charge of protecting the muscles from traction forces. I don’t know, I might be wrong (I’m not, I’m just making a little bit of fun from it), but don’t you think the fact that you can “maintain” more weight at the same time without failure means you might simply have a better response to traction? Wouldn’t that mean more collagen fibers? Might be, don’t you think?
If you want to put it simpler, just think of a cell which needs to grow. If we start from the fact a cell is 40% protein (just counting structure, obviously 80% of a cell is water). If your cell grows twice its size, having to maintain the rate of 40% protein, where does it get the protein from?
