Now, find a way to trigger that without excercise @ win your Nobel prize.
Before anybody intervenes, I want to say that excercise is stupid activity and that gorillas don't excercise that much. Try wrestle with one.
Before anybody intervenes, I want to say that excercise is stupid activity and that gorillas don't excercise that much. Try wrestle with one.
I would rather run a marathon against one.
It's also key to consider that they're genetically programmed to develop more muscle mass with relatively large amounts of rest and no need to explicitly work out. Humans have survived in less abundant conditions, with leaner times and lower energy requirements. We've adapted to sacrifice mass and strength at times. In order to develop strength, we need to do hard work. While we're remarkably similar to gorillas, this is one way in which we differ quite a bit.
Can we please find a way to un-sacrifice mass, un-fit to survive in less abundant conditions? Right now, the food is so abundant it is actively killing us. But we are fat and not muscular.
Are we sentient species, after all?
I do not joke when I say it would be multiple Nobel prizes. Everybody will get around five quality-adjusted life years on average if you do it correctly.
Some studies show that when we eat whole foods our bodies generally maintain healthy weights
I wonder if it's because it's harder (though not impossible) to eat too much of a well-balanced, whole-food diet.
Why is 500g of frozen pizza made up of modified starches and sugary sauce easier to eat and less filling than 500g of sourdough pizza of whole grains and real cheese/tomato
Maybe because our body is better equipped to register the calorie intake from the real food
I bet somebody out there already has this mutation.
I wonder if there's some floor dosage which is far from affecting your health but already significant in affecting your well-being. Why aren't we all on steroids. Why people who are trying to get rid of fat are not on steroids.
Are they? Gorillas live to 35-40. Humans live to 80+.
A lot of people are. Anavar and Clenbuterol is a very popular fat loss regimen (though likely not acquired via a legitimate prescription very often), and not just for bodybuilders. The amount of middle age men on Testosterone Replacement Therapy is also likely a lot higher than you think it is, and body fat management is one of the more appealing benefits of TRT.
The risks of messing with your natural sex hormones never go away though, so there’s always going to be risks that a lot of people don’t want to take. Like high blood pressure, heart disease, suppression of natural testosterone production, hypogonadism (and infertility), gynecomastia… and for women there’s the androgenising effects, as steroids are part of the pharmaceutical side of a gender reassignment for them (which is why it’s not uncommon for some of the larger female bodybuilders to have especially deep voices, or even masculine-looking facial hair).
The rest of your comment about complications of anabolic steroid use is totally correct.
Of course the better option is to use neither of them, and just have a healthy diet and exercise routine. The health risks are incredibly serious, even if you manage to avoid outright dropping dead at a young age (like many “enhanced” fitness influencers have, such as Zyzz, Jo Linder, Rich Piana…).
I want to lie 12 hours straight under a tree and be reasonably fit, like a gorilla.
Eating healthy makes sense but excercising, by definition of that word, does not.
/s before anyone intervenes
Contrary to a lot of nature documentaries, homo sapiens has quite a lot of advantages; well above average vision, exquisite muscular control, quite excellent hearing, almost unmatched vocalization abilities, and of course, the supernal brain, among many other attributes of note. But we do quite literally punch well below our weight, by any metric; body size, muscle mass, etc. The sci-fi trope of human being weaker than orcs, weaker than Vulcans, weaker than Klingons, etc. actually has some basis in fact.
The only land animals that can match us for endurance are certain breeds of horses and dogs, because we bred them specifically to keep up with us. There are lots of tribes around the world whose hunting tactic is to walk at a particular deer until it falls over dead.
We also have really good immune systems, giving us the ability to live all over the world in various filthy conditions without immediately dying from infection.
And our digestive systems are very flexible. Some prehistoric people were completely vegeterian, some lived entirely off of fish, etc.
Show me an animal that can do all that.
Can't have it all. All in all it's a good trade when you have "tools", which includes "weapons".
I'd rather snuggle.