An Om ega 6 fatty acid who build block for prostaglandins synthesis (PGE 2 & PGF 2). Prostaglandin is integral to protein transform and muscle accumulation , with a lot of activities like blood flow to muscles (it will pump your muscles), enhance the level of local testo , supporting cell activation and increase the rate of amino-acids and growth of muscle. Arachidonic acid it is like a thermostat for prostaglandines turnover, and is initiating the biochemical processes during the hard exercises , finally producing the desired hypertrophy of muscle.
Arachidonic acid it is in the '' middle '' of anabolic process and response, and begins to show its extraanabolic activity early, when you start your muscle training session. During intense exercises, arachidonic acid is released from fibers damaged by hard training, and will cause you that local''inflamation'' a few days after a hard workout, who convince you one more time that ''without pain, there is no gain''.Arachidonic acid will be eliberated from dama ged fibers , in a long succesison of anabolic responses wich will rebuild and strenghteen the fibers, it will increase IGF-1,and the numbers of insulin receptors to expand the protein synthesis .
Arachidonic acid does not increase the levels of hormones but will bring more and more receptors for them, hurrying the process by opening a gate for hormones .Your capacity to eliberate arachidonic acid during the workout is very important for the anabolic response of your body ; the common exercise lowers the level of arachidonic acid in the skeletal muscle, this means a lower rate of amino-acids synthesis, a lower IGF-1 and insulin receptors density.
In other words, you will obtain harder the ''inflamation'' of muscle the more regularly you train your body.And with a low level of arachidonic acid, you must work twice harder to obtain the anabolic effects. That's life. On the other side, you can change your common exercises and workout your body from different angles, and the desired feeling of sore will show up: the arachidonic acid prefer new and surprising exercises!
You can suplement the arachidonic acid in high levels , with 250 mg- 500 mg per day, during seven-eight weeks(yes, it is cycled in the same manner like anabolic steroids). Diets rich in arachidonic acid will cause a bigger retention of arachidonic acid in muscle tissues , generating a great output of prosta-glandin metabolitess, higher levels of IGF-1 and insulin receptors, a bigger rate of aminoacids synthesis. You can obtain about two lbs of muscle in one week , with a diet rich in arachidonic acid.
It is a very important nutrient that you must have it in your ''meals''especially if you are a vegetarian bodybuilder.It is known the fact that vegetarians doesn't have the same strenght and resistance as bodybuilders who eat meat and animal protein.To have red meat in meniu is a bigger chance to have muscle tissue louded by arachidonic acid.Of course, for those who don't like meat, 250 mg of arachidonic acid should provide enough supply of this great nutrient.
Arachidonic acid side effects:
For non-steroid use, this omega 6 fatty acid it works very effective in the anabolic area, and 750 mg per day will produce gains of two lbs per week, with hard training and high aminoacid diet daily.In a contest with 20 ''non-steroid ''bodybuilders , the average gain in two months was 8 lbs !only with hard training, conssistent protein meal and arachidonic acid supplements. By far, the most powerfull natural ''non-steroid'' supplement for building your body is this nutrient, arachidonic acid.
On the other side, it produce a very low androgenic side effects , so females bodybuilders have nothing to worry about.The skin will beneffit after using omega6 fatty acid, and after a cycle there is no ''crash'' in your muscle gains, they do not reverse. But if you suffer from any inflammatory desease you must NOT use arachidonic acid, because will exacerbate the symptoms(especially in arthritis cases , the joints pain will be more noticeable)it will not increase the desease itself, but it will amplify the pain symptomps, induced by prosta-glandins.
Other health conditions who ask for a limited dosage of arachidonic acid are cardiovascular desease , or high blood presure. Also, testosterone and arachidonic acid are not allowed in cancer desease and prostate cancer,because cancer cells are often responsive to growth hormones, like any other cells...so , you should avoid any nutrient and booster of growth hormones if your health doesn't allow this.