Dark Chocolate BOOSTS Muscle Growth! 🍫💪

Taylor Overton

Jun 15 (edited) in 🏋️‍♂️ Fitness

DARK CHOCOLATE... 🍫

An EXCELLENT and DELICIOUS food... 😋

Filled with flavonoids, antioxidants, iron, magnesium, copper ect.

But what if I told YOU... It BOOSTS MUSCLE GROWTH! 💪🚀

This POST will be split into SECTIONS:

📶 1. How does DARK CHOCOLATE boost MUSCLE GROWTH?
🍫 2. What IS Epicatechin?
🧪 3. What IS Myostatin?
🧬 4. The OPTIMAL Dark Chocolate Muscle Booster Formula
📕 5. Closing Notes

Let me explain:

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📶 1. How does DARK CHOCOLATE boost MUSCLE GROWTH?

Well, it's because it is a MAJOR source of EPICATECHIN.

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🍫 2. What IS Epicatechin?

Epicatechin is a type of flavonoid 🍇, which is a class of COMPOUNDS with ANTIOXIDANT properties found in various foods (a major source being DARK CHOCOLATE).

These ANTIOXIDANT 🌿 properties help neutralize FREE RADICALS in the body and reduces OXIDATIVE STRESS.

It also PROMOTES cardiovascular health 🏃 by improving BLOOD FLOW and reducing BLOOD PRESSURE through increased NITRIC OXIDE production.

Now, a HIGHLY important function of Epicatechin is that it INHIBITS MYOSTATIN.

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🧪 3. What IS Myostatin?

MYOSTATIN, also known as growth differentiation factor 8 (GDF-8) is a protein 🧬 that regulates muscle growth 💪 by inhibiting muscle differentiation and cell proliferation.

Essentially, it INHIBITS MUSCLE GROWTH.

Encoded by the MSTN gene, MYOSTATIN BINDS to the activin receptor type IIB (ActRIIB) on MUSCLE cells, initiating a signaling cascade that activates SMAD proteins, ultimately reducing the synthesis of proteins necessary for muscle growth. 🧪

Myostatin tries to make sure that muscles do not grow excessively.

Now, if we want to INCREASE our muscle growth, we will have to try REDUCE/INHIBIT myostatin. How do we do that?

REMEMBER: EPICATECHIN INHIBITS MYOSTATIN! AND EPICATECHIN COMES FROM DARK CHOCOLATE! 🍫

This means that we should start consuming DARK CHOCOLATE to BOOST our muscle growth.

However, what is the "OPTIMAL" amount?

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🧬 4. The OPTIMAL Dark Chocolate Muscle Booster Formula

You may be ASKING "How much dark chocolate do I NEED to BOOST MUSCLE GROWTH?" 🤎

Well, I've got a FORMULA here for you which I'll EXPLAIN:

THE FORMULA:

GRAMS of DARK CHOCOLATE you should HAVE for MYOSTATIN INHIBITION EACH DAY!:

(1.00 - % dark chocolate + 1) x kg bw

So for example:

Let's say, you have 95% cocoa dark chocolate. Let's say you're also about 70kg in bodyweight (just an example) The formula would be like this:

(1.00 - 0.95 + 1) x 70

And the final answer is about 73.5 grams.

✨ For OPTIMAL Myostatin INHIBITION and BETTER MUSCLE GROWTH!

Then you get the amount of GRAMS you should have of DARK CHOCOLATE!

For INHIBITION of MYOSTATIN and BETTER MUSCLE GROWTH!

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📕 5. Closing Notes

There's NO POINT reading this GUIDE if you're NOT going to TAKE ACTION. 📃

🎯 So, here's your ACTIONABLE STEP:

Each DAY: consume _ grams of DARK CHOCOLATE with the formula (1.00 - % dark chocolate + 1) x kg bw

Hope you guys found some VALUE in this post! Please make sure to LIKE this post so it reaches a wider audience, and so more people can BOOST their muscle growth.

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