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Mustard For Muscle Building?

Scientists have discovered a natural steroid occurring in mustard plants, that acts much like the synthetic versions, but with minimal side effects.

Mustard: A Steroid Without Side Effects?

You thought protein and maybe creatine was what you needed to build muscle. Steroids may have come to your mind as well, but of course they can have all sorts of rather nasty side effects.

Now scientists discovered that homobrassinolide, a type of steroid you find in plants such as mustards, has a similar effect as synthetic steroids: Just without most of the side effects.

Researchers from North Carolina’s State University took skeletal muscle cells from rats, exposed them to different amounts of homobrassinolide and measured what happened. Protein synthesis increased, while protein breakdown decreased.

More Lean Body Mass

To find out how living organisms react to it, they gave healthy rats homobrassinolide for 24 days and measured changes in body weight, food consumption, and body composition. The rats experienced an anabolic effect and increased their lean body mass.

Field of mustard plants

Mustard plants

To find out what happens when the homobrassinolide goes together with high protein intake, the study was then repeated with rats fed a high protein diet. The results were similar.

Additionally, when rats castrated on the brink of puberty were given homobrassinolide, they increased their grip strength and the number and size of muscle fibers – despite being castrated, which normally hinders development of muscle cells.

Mustard For The Win

Before you now go out and buy every bottle of mustard available, keep in mind that a) this was with mustard seeds and the amount of homobrassinolide in the mustard you put on hot dogs is rather small, and b) that what works in rats doesn’t necessarily works in humans.

Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of FASEB Journal, where the research was published, told Eureka News Alert:

The temptation is to see this discovery as another quick fix to help you go from fat to fit, and to a very small degree, this may be true. In reality, however, this study identifies an important drug target for a wide range of conditions that cause muscle wasting.

But, oh well, I can already see the “Mustard Muscle 9000” advertisements. If people only realized that building muscle is no rocket science.

Pictures courtesy of Leslie Seaton and Liz West.

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7 Comments

  1. Fraser says:
    October 20, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    I wonder how much mustard and what kind would be suitable to make it beneficial in one’s diet. I’ll be using more ground mustard in beans, but I wonder if I can get a more natural or less salty brand of the liquid version. It’s just so salty :p

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    • evilcyber says:
      October 21, 2011 at 12:58 am

      I have to read through the paper myself to get all the details. Meanwhile I’m pretty sure that trying to eat tons of pure mustard would probably kill my stomach 😀

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      • Alan says:
        June 13, 2013 at 4:20 am

        I have been on the mustard diet for over a year since Nov, 2011 and I got jacked…It does work!

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        • evilcyber says:
          June 13, 2013 at 2:29 pm

          I didn’t even know there was a “mustard diet” 😉

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          • Alan says:
            July 6, 2014 at 2:49 am

            I eat the stuff everyday including the mustard greens is salad and it truly worked!

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            • evilcyber says:
              July 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm

              You are a miracle, Alan. You pick up a conversation right where it was left one year ago 😉

              Reply
  2. Alan says:
    November 26, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Anyone still supplementing with mustard and did you get results?

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