Late response. Just got back from the gym ..... brutal leg session.
For Starters:
In response to your query above ..... MASS 550 also contains Maslinic Acid amongst other things.
- Taken from FINAFLEX product description ......
MASLINIC ACID - UNPARALLELED GROWTH
Imagine an ingredient that signals the body to increase protein synthesis, protein turnover, body mass, and muscle tissue all at once? Meet Maslinic acid, the naturally occurring ingredient that has a structure similar to steroid hormones and a proposed mechanism of action in cell signaling similar to testosterone. Maslinic acid has been shown in cell based studies and animal studies to produce a powerful anabolic effect by increasing whole body growth rate, regulating blood glucose, nitrogen retention, and increasing the synthesis of DNA and protein
AND......
Maslinic acid (which goes by thechemical name tongue-twister of 2-alpha, 3-beta-dihydroxiolean-12-en-28-oicacid) is what is called a triterpenoid compound, present in fruit and leaves ofOlea europaea. Cholesterol is one example of a triterpene. Phytosterols andphytoecdysteroids are also triterpenes. Now I know that animal studies don'talways translate into human studies, but at the same time, this is often wherewe find new cool ingredients. In this study, scientists investigated theeffects of maslinic acid on growth, protein-turnover rates and nucleic acidconcentration in trout white muscle. Yep, that's trout. As in fish. But theresults are rather intriguing. Five groups of 180 trout of a mean body mass of20 grams were fed for 225 days with diets containing zero, 1, 5, 25 and 250mgof maslinic acid per kg of diet. At the end of the experiment, white-muscleweight (which is their fast-twitch muscle) and protein-accumulation rate oftrout fed with maslinic acid were higher than in the control group. The totalcontent of DNA, RNA and protein in trout fed with 25 and 250mg of maslinic acidper kg bodyweight was significantly higher than in the control. The protein
NAratio was also slightly higher than control.
It gets even better! In the samegroups of trout, protein synthesis rates increased to more than 80 percent overthe control values, while no differences were found in protein-degradationrate. Thus, maslinic acid can act as a growth factor when added to a standardtrout diet. What if we added it to a human diet? Maslinic acid has other veryintriguing properties as well. For instance, treatment with maslinic acidresults in a significant inhibition of cell proliferation and causes apoptoticdeath in colon cancer cells. And to top it off, another study showed thatmaslinic acid might modulate glucose metabolism partially through reducinginsulin resistance. So to summarize, maslinic acid may help promote skeletalmuscle hypertrophy, improve glucose metabolism and for you health nuts, fightcancer cells in the colon. Not a bad trifecta!
- Written by justis berg....18 May 2011
Published in Muscular Development.
