proud13 said:
Myostatin again but about the only part you really need to read is the last sentence or two with the conclusion.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/25/14938
I am a little concerned about the validity of this study. I am not going to argue whether or not Myostatin increases muscular hypertrophy because I am not familiar enough with it.
However I am very familiar with the HIV/AIDS model, and I must say that the reason for my skepticism is that from what I gather this study was done on HIV-Positive men suffering from wasting syndrome.
A large body in the scientific community-The Group for the Reappraisal of Aids-a membership of over 1500 scientists(including no less than 3 Nobel Prize winners) all say that HIV does not cause Aids. Most, if not all, agree with Peter Duesberg, PhD, Microbiologist U. Cal-Berkeley (he was California's Scientist of the year 1971, discovered the first cancer gene in 1970, and in fact "mapped " retroviruses{of which HIV is a member of} and is considered a world renouned expert in retroviral science) that HIV is a latent passenger virus that exudes no cytocidal abilities whatsoever. In short, HIV does not cause aids, much less wasting syndrome. Actually, it causes nothing.
There is not one single document that has been published that shows or proves how HIV causes AIDS. Not a single one. What has been proven is that the uninformed public is willing to swallow a theory based on correlation and misrepresentation-however that is a cannonball that the scientific community is not swallowing-no matter how well lubricated. It should be noted that correlation is not proof of causation.
The original cell cultures sent to Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, scientist and self proclaimed discoverer of HIV ( A lie-Dr. Montegnier of the Pastuer institute in France discovered HIV-and sent Gallo cultures on 2 different occasions-the beginning of the HIV-AIDS hoax) only showed 41% of the "AIDS patient" cultures had HIV virus-and not even 100% were anti-body positive. In scientific circles, this is a bad joke.
Even someone being HIV anti-body positive is questionable. There are over 64 known triggers of false positive tests-including flu virus and hepatitis vaccinations. The big problem is the HIV test is non specific-meaning particles of another virus or protien altogether will trigger a false positive antibody test.
Another huge hole in this hypothesis is that the supposed HIV virus (reading between the lines yet? lol) is that the virus has never been properly isolated-this is why there are so many false positives. There is no gold standard to back up an HIV antibody test. One lab can tell you a subject is positive, and another lab with the same blood from the same blood draw will come back negative.
The real cause of AIDS is drugs-most notably cocaine and amyl nitates-"poppers". Other players are numerous antibiotics, malnutrition, anal sex (sperm contact with anal linings supposedly has pronounced immune depression-still investigating this), extasy etc. All of these products have severe immuno depressive effects.
But perhaps the most notable is AZT-the very drug indicated for antiviral therapy actually causes aids-what a paradox.
IMO this study should have been performed on healthy subjects-not HIV patients suffering from wasting syndrome that is highly likely caused by drug consumption (if they even have HIV is questionable.
Myostatin may serve well for BB'ing and other circles, but IMO this study is severly flawed. Who knows what drugs (rec or pharmaceutical) these subjects were taking. I saw nothing mentioned of a blood test or urinalysis.
--SS