Green tomatoes increases muscle

As it turned out, a natural compound from green tomatoes stimulates muscle growth and endurance. The team of the University of Idaho found that tomatidine – the compound in green tomatoes, is an effective component for building muscle and protect muscle from degeneration. Injury, aging or illness can make people weak and boring. Muscle atrophy causes many problems. And it is not always possible to solve them only by exercises. Dr. Adams is in search of detection of compounds that are useful for muscular dystrophy, found that tomatidine generates changes in gene expression that occur in muscle cells when people are affected by muscle atrophy.





After identifying tomatidine, Adams and his team tested its effects on skeletal muscle and found that tomatidine stimulates growth of cultured muscle cells in humans. The next step was to add tomatidine to the diet of mice. It was found that healthy mice supplemented with tomatidine, got more muscle, become stronger. And, most importantly, the researchers found that tomatidine prevents and treat muscle wasting. Interestingly, when mice that were fed tomatidine, their overall body weight has not changed. So Adams suggests that the compound may have potential for the treatment of obesity. Attractive side tomatidine is that it is a natural compound derived from tomatoes, is tomato plants, green tomatoes and digested in the gut."Green tomatoes safe to eat in moderation. But we don't know how many green tomatoes people must eat to get a dose of tomatidine similar to what we gave the mice. We also don't know if such a dose of tomatidine safe for people," says Adams.

Source: nauka24news.ru/