So i’m going to try a diet of broccoli. I’m going to consume 4kgs of the stuff a day for a week.
This is because broccoli contains sulforophane which could possibly inhibit myostatin through increase in follistatin. Sulforophane is a HDAC inhibitor which increases follistatin.
Myostatin is a protein which limits muscle growth. When this is knocked out in mice it creates extremely muscular bodies. Follistatin overproduction causes even more muscle growth as it inhibits myostatin and possibly other proteins like gdf11 and activin.
It will also provide alot of protein, something like 130gs.
4 kilos a day huh?!?! What’s your plan to get that quantity of broccoli down? I’ve been trying to eat more broccoli and have been blending up some in my shakes as well as eating it with meals, but 4 kilos?
[quote]Bullit wrote:
4 kilos a day huh?!?! What’s your plan to get that quantity of broccoli down? I’ve been trying to eat more broccoli and have been blending up some in my shakes as well as eating it with meals, but 4 kilos?[/quote]
I can’t see him consuming it in another other form than to put it in shakes.
Just for fun I decided to figure some nutritional information for this, um, unusual idea.
All values are per 4 kilos, raw.
Fiber: 104 g
Non-fiber carbs: 160 g
Non-fiber calories: 944
Protein: 96 g
Vitamin K: 5080% of the RDA
Potassium: 360% of RDA
Manganese: 400% of RDA
While some things are fine at way above the RDA, I am not at all sure that Vitamin K is fine at over 50 times the RDA, nor potassium at 3.6 times when considering that I assume you will continue to get potassium from the rest of the diet as well. (Too much potassium can kill, which is why it cannot be sold as a nutritional supplement at any significant dose. I doubt you’d be at the lethal level but the point is there is such a thing as too much and the above may be there.) Dunno about the manganese if maintained long term.
