This is a YouTube video titled "C60 Powers Up Mitochondria to Strengthen Your Muscles & Brain with Ian Mitchell" featuring a conversation between Dave Asprey and Ian Mitchell recorded in February 2022. The discussion focuses on muscle biology, myosin, muscle injuries, stem cell therapies, and the use of lasers and other technologies to enhance muscle and connective tissue health. The content is a detailed expert talk on biohacking and muscle physiology.
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You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. But there are some studies out here and one of the things that I've always been interested in that I've not really talked that much about is myosin in the body now, myosin. If you guys have ever seen one of those pictures of the most ripped rat or the kangaroo that's just all muscle, they're using technology to knock out genes so that those animals have tons and tons of myosin in them that they put on muscle like you wouldn't believe.
Yeah, my knockouts, they're like myostatin knockouts, absolute, you know, super ripped shredded bulls, which is. Oh yeah, the bulls. Figure, right.
Of course, the bulls. In fact, I think they were the first ones there. But I've seen it in multiple animals now and it's ridiculous. So bodybuilders forever have been saying, how do I control this myosin? And well, it looks like you have a study on your fullerenes and ATPAs. And.
Yeah, so there's some, there's some interesting things that go down there and.
Well, it looks like you have a study on your fullerenes and ATPase and.
Yeah, so there's some, there's some interesting things that go down there that I, I have cautioned people about and. Because the, the way I figured this out, and I, I'm sure I probably mentioned it before, was by pulling my muscles in my back and tearing my hamstring twice. Because you are able to activate so much skeletal muscle that you're not normally able to do that. So it creates a function called super precipitation of skeletal muscle lactomycin. So basically it's entraining all of your sarcomeres and those are kind of little muscle fibers. And so in terms of changes to your actual musculature, it doesn't have the appearance of much, but in terms of skeletal muscle activation, the recruitment goes off the charts. And the problem is it's a dose dependent curve. So one of the studies that came out showed a very dose dependent curve to that. And so you can do these sort of ridiculous Captain America kind of lifts and things like that. Problem is chondrocytes, really. I mean, you don't really pump out enough ligaments and tendons at the pace you need to to keep up with muscle recruitment. That's suddenly a 2, 3, 4 X factor. And I'm the poster child for the silly injury where I ended up on the ground literally holding my back as I cracked up because I realized what it was and remembered that study.
It's funny, you and me both have had this problem for different reasons. I talked about this just on the last episode with, I think it was with Chris Shade a few years ago. I put on 29 pounds of muscle in six weeks. The chondrocytes are the cells that are making bone and connective tissue. So what's going on there is literally you can put on muscle too quickly. So it's not really about the muscle, it's about the connective tissue. And if you do qigong or nigong, which is even better than qigong for that kind of stuff, or tai chi or even some forms of yoga, you can get really strong ligaments. And you ever see those weird, like, Shaolin guys who can do a handstand on one finger without any muscle mass? Yeah, it should be impossible. That's the other kind of stuff. So can you make the chondroitin strength formula for me? Because I want that.
I think that's something you probably have to do with lasers, so. Which actually I really do. We've been working on.
Shouldn't you do this?
When you say lasers, you're right. Exactly. I'm going to go hop in my Bob's a Big Boy rocket shortly. Yeah, the thing with that is I've been playing with that a lot and I've done, I think, five different stem cell procedures using V cells. The very small embryonic, like stem cells in the lab here. Because those things are aces, man. After having Covid, I had myocarditis and I could not function well. My heart was just super impinged.
And after the called me, I know how to hack that.
Yeah, it was a bitch, man. I tried quite a few things and I ended up going back and doing the B cell thing. And I did after the third procedure. It was a night and day difference. I was able to run up flights of stairs as opposed to literally having to stop after one flight, catch my breath, and then schlep myself up to the second flight. So I'm a firm believer in that. But the real crux of that is actually using lasers to simulate things because, I mean, you and I have talked for years and years now. Humans are not just muscle and bone. I mean, we're this aggregate system with photonics and chemicals and biochemical interactions and magnetics and electronics. You can really do an amazing amount of stuff if you're willing to tap all of the available resources. Now.
