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Originally posted by lil12big1
Interesting concept, however it seems to be at odds with recent (and some not so recent) medical research. With any traction there must be damage - no damage=no growth. It may only be minute, but it's damage nonetheless. The key is to finely control this damage to use it for growth.
Read this!
Right, I made a bad choice of words there. You do need micro tears to force the body to repair itself. I should have said what leave of force is needed to cause the growth of new tissue cells while minimizing the damage to the cells!
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Just a few other things which I feel need clarification ………
-trophy - Is a suffix from the Greek trophia. It means to nourish - it doesn't mean "repairing from injuries".
What is the meaning of nourish? Is "repairing from injuries" not one of the following?
1. to promote the growth of
2. to furnish or sustain with nutriment
3. To foster the development of; promote
4. To keep alive; maintain
All of them are, and is trophy or nourish! Is this not what happens after a workout?
I believe so, you must rest after a workout so your body can supply nourishment to maintain and promote the growth of the cells that have been damaged, This is trophy or repairing from injuries!
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Hypertrophy - Is a non-tumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue as a result of an increase in the size rather than the number of constituent cells. There are no new cells being made here - hypertrophy is a tumescence or swelling.
Yes I agree with you about that definition, but one thing is over looked!
Hypertrophy…
hypertrophy | Infoplease
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"In such cases hyperplasia, an increase in the number of cells, generally accompanies hypertrophy."
There is many studies going on now to determine when and how hyperplasia happens, but it seems related to hypertrophy and with mixed results! here is a link to read…
Fitness Health & Wellness Research Articles | AFPA Fitness
Here is a cut and past from that site…
HOW DOES MUSCLE FIBER HYPERPLASIA OCCUR?
"There are two primary mechanism in which new fibers can be formed. First, large fibers can split into two or more smaller fibers (i.e., fiber splitting) (6,25,39). Second satellite cells can be activated (11,16,17,43,44). Satellite cells are myogenic stem cells which are involved in skeletal muscle regeneration. When you injure, stretch, or severely exercise a muscle fiber, satellite cells are activated (16,43,44).
Satellite cells proliferate (i.e., undergo mitosis or cell division) and give rise to new myoblastic cells (i.e., immature muscle cells). These new myoblastic cells can either fuse with an existing muscle fiber causing that fiber to get bigger (i.e., hypertrophy) or these myoblastic cells can fuse with each other to form a new fiber (i.e., hyperplasia)."
As you can see, there is grounds to believe that new cell division and growth occurs with hypertrophy. But the questions is what brings it on, and what degree of damage is needed to archive it? It don't happen with all test that are done but it is present in others! This question is out there right now and there is no definitive answer to it as of yet.
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Hypotrophy - Is the progressive degeneration of an organ or tissue caused by loss of cells. Once again, there is no cell growth, unhealthy or otherwise - hypotrophy is cell loss!]
This is what I said in my earlier post. I believe that when you exercise and damage cells, not every cell can be saved or trophied back, or nourish back to as healthy as the one that was there to start with. If so we would never have scare formations! So you now have progressive degeneration of an organ or tissue caused by loss of cells from damage in witch cases you can have atrophy, or in the case of hyperplasia you may have inferior cell growth or should I say damage to immature cells that may not grow to there full potential!
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Atrophy - is the wasting away through lack of use - as in muscles in the limbs of people with paralysis. It has absolutely nothing to do with scar tissue although scar tissue may be the cause of atrophy in some instances.
Atrophy…
Higher Education Support | McGraw Hill Higher Education
Here you can see that Atrophy can occur from injury, or severing nerves. Now how many PE'ers here have nerve damage in the back of there minds? I do for one, and most everyone on this board!
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"If the muscle is reinnervated, muscle function is restored, and atrophy is stopped. However, if skeletal muscle is permanently denervated, it atrophies and exhibits permanent flaccid paralysis."
"Permanent flaccid paralysis." Could this be the cause of soft erection? And yes, atrophy can lead to scare formation!
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It's all very well spouting-off opinions and theories, but please, do your homework first! Uninformed debate only serves to muddy the waters.
lil1 :lep:
As you can see I have been going my homework! We should all have open minds here being that PE is not a science. I just bring questions to this board with no real answers to them.
Modemmer.