Our body blocks muscle synthesis with a substance called myostatin to prevent muscle synthesis above a certain level (this was a strategy to survive on less food).
Therefore, even if they exercised the same amount, their skeletal muscle mass was significantly less than that of apes of similar weight.
However, when myostatin is deficient, a person becomes muscular like a baby or a dog (everything they eat goes to their muscles), just like a 0-year-old child’s buttocks and thigh muscles look like that.
But these days, in the obesity treatment market, ‘If you create a blocker that blocks this, won’t fat be gained and muscles gain?
In fact, when myostatin inhibitor was injected into people, body weight decreased by 10.2% and muscles actually increased.