Essays on Body Builders

Abstract

This paper discusses how exercise stimulates the release of growth hormone. Older people tend to have lower levels of the hormone. As a result, mechanisms have been formulated to help deal with the deficiency which includes inducing the growth hormone into the individual’s body. This, therefore, leads to the discussion of the exact mechanism through which the growth hormone facilitates exercise, maintains growth and repair of worn out muscles or even reverses the aging process among the aged. Also, the functions of IGF-I binding proteins during exercise and its importance in aiding the release of the GH is ...

Creatine is an amino acid. It is naturally occurring i.e. it is made in the body in the kidney, liver and pancreas. Creatine is obtained from foods such as meat and fish. In the body, creatine is converted to creatine phosphate and taken to reserves in the muscle. In the case of extreme intensity, short intervals of exercising such as weight lifting and sprinting it is used as an energy source. The storage form phosphocreatine is converted to the body's energy currency, ATP and used. The fact that it has this use has meant that athletes and body builders ...

Introduction

Energy and soft drinks industry targets segments including recreational, lifestyle users, athletes and body builders with sale of energy and performance enhancement drinks. Body builders use the products for the purpose of caloric intake as they are engaged in building up of muscles; a task that requires many calories and nutrients. Athletes include the sports people who also use the products for performance enhancement. On the other hand, lifestyle users are those people who do not use the products for professional exercise or sports purposes, but for recreational purposes. They use the products as beverages or for energy boosts when ...

“Amino acids are key precursors for synthesis of hormones and low molecular weight nitrogenous substances with each having enormous biological importance, both in nutrition and health” Dr. Guoya Wu, Texas A & M University The Body Building For You article opens with a quote to emphasize the role and scientific importance of amino acids in the making of proteins and the muscle building process. It then goes on to discuss a “newly discovered” set of amino acids that have the ability to “jump start” the production of proteins and to synthesize them at a faster rate. The author then goes on to ...