Stem-Cells and Stemulite

Interview with Dr. Robert Shorr, co-creator of Stemulite

Use it or Lose it. Adult stem cell recruitment.

One of the things that we talk about when we talk about the maintenance of different parts of the body, organs and tissues, is trophic factors or signal transduction molecules.

One of the things that I had the privilege to do is to be part of the first group in the world to ever isolate and characterize the acetylcholine receptor which is the protein that is in the neuromuscular junction, where the nerve connects to the muscle and is responsible for the ability of the nerve to communicate with that muscle.

That activity in and of itself, feeds back and signals the muscle to grow. The more you use it, the more it grows.

In a sense, use it or lose it.

If a nerve is cut the muscle will actually atrophy because the nerve is no longer providing the trophic factors that are necessary to stimulate the muscle to maintain itself, let alone grow and improve.

Part of this process is the recruitment of a type of cell which is known as a stem cell and we've all heard about this and we've heard about it perhaps in the sense of controversy about using embryonic cells. The controversy that's associated with the use of embryonic stem cells is completely unrelated to what we're talking about, what we're doing and in the products that we're offering to the public.

There's a type of stem cell which exists in the bone marrow and in other tissues of the body which is called an adult stem cell. This is a cell that can be recruited by trophic factors or other signal transduction pathways to arrive at a tissue where it's needed where it will go from being an immature cell to actually become the type of cell that it needs to be in the place where it was delivered.

So a stem cell that's activated within muscle or is delivered to the muscle will actually grow and will become additional muscle tissue and with the right nutrition and with the right antioxidants the balance between protein and fat content can be optimized so that a person can not only maintain and grow their musculature but with the right nutrition that does not have to be at the expense of quickness.

When I was a power weight lifter and bench pressing 300 plus pounds, people would say to me, "Oh, you're going to become this bulky guy who's going to be slow and awkward moving."

Well, with the right nutrition and the right nerve health that doesn't have to happen, and in my martial arts training I was not only the biggest in the class, I was also the fastest.