Winter is mass phase: Optimize your muscle building with Mega Mass Caps

Winter is bulking season – whether you're going for a clean or dirty bulk, preparations for the next beach season are in full swing . Our Mega Mass Caps can support your muscle-building efforts. This high-quality add-on to our legendary Mega Mass Weight Gainers contains a unique combination of nutrients that, among other things, stimulates muscle protein production, improves recovery, and regulates the hormonal environment to promote muscle growth. It's important that the high-dose Mega Mass Caps are taken as part of a progressive training program and a protein-rich diet. So, get to the weights and give it your all!

How will our new mega products affect Do Mass capsules target muscle building?

The process of muscle building is highly complex and depends on an interplay of numerous influencing factors.

Our Mega Mass capsules have been formulated to optimize some of these factors in favor of muscle building and, in conjunction with a hypercaloric (calorie surplus), protein-rich diet, to stimulate muscle growth.

• Stabilization of testosterone levels and reduction of cortisol levels (stress hormone)
• Improvement in training performance
• Stimulation of muscle protein synthesis (incorporation of new proteins into the muscles)
• Inhibition of muscle protein breakdown ("muscle breakdown")
• Stimulation of anabolic hormones and signaling pathways (testosterone, HGH, IGF-1)
• Supporting regeneration after training
• Inhibition of myostatin/increase in follistatin (messenger substances that control muscle growth)

How does muscle growth actually work?

Muscle growth describes the adaptation of muscles to a stress stimulus through an increase in the cross-sectional area (thickness growth) of the muscle cells (hypertrophy). This increase in muscle cell cross-section occurs through the synthesis and incorporation of additional (contractile) muscle proteins (muscle protein synthesis). Muscle cells consist of approximately 75% water and approximately 20% protein. The remaining 5% primarily comprises fats, glycogen, and ions (minerals).

Muscle protein synthesis (MPS), the process of building muscle, is counteracted by continuous muscle protein breakdown. When muscle protein synthesis predominates (MPS > MPB), muscle mass increases. Therefore, the goal is to shift this ratio in favor of MPS through training, nutrition, and supplements in order to build muscle.

Why is Ashwagandha in our new Mega Do the capsules contain mass capsules?

The components of the plant Withania somnifera, also known as ashwagandha, winter cherry, sleep berry, or Indian ginseng, have a long tradition in the traditional Indian medicine Ayurveda. Ashwagandha is a so-called adaptogen, which can restore the body's natural balance.

Ashwagandha can lower cortisol levels, improve sleep quality, increase muscle strength, improve recovery after training, increase testosterone levels and improve sperm quality.

Especially because of its strength-enhancing, regeneration-improving and hormone-regulating effects, Ashwagandha is the perfect addition to our Mega Mass Caps.

Why do our Mega products contain Mass Capsules Sour Cherry Juice Powder CherryCraft®?

Sour cherries have a high anthocyanin content. These secondary plant compounds belong to the group of polyphenols and their subgroup, the flavonoids. The standardized branded raw material CherryCraft® from the renowned raw material manufacturer Iprona has a particularly high content of these plant compounds. In addition to standardization and a higher concentration of anthocyanins, this extract has the advantage over sour cherry juice of being virtually calorie-free.

Anthocyanins have a positive effect on delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and training-induced strength loss. Therefore, tart cherry extract is excellent for improving recovery (Kelley et al. 2018; Hooper et al. 2021).

In a mouse study, the administration of a tart cherry juice concentrate was able to prevent glucocorticoid-induced muscle breakdown by regulating certain genes associated with muscle breakdown and protein synthesis (Ku et al. 2021).

The researchers administered dexamethasone, a hormone belonging to the glucocorticoid class, to the mice. This hormone exerts a catabolic (breakdown) effect on muscles, primarily through proteolysis (protein degradation). Interestingly, increased myostatin release also plays a role in glucocorticoid-induced catabolism.

Sour cherry juice may promote sleep or contribute to improved sleep quality through various mechanisms, such as its high antioxidant content or its anti-inflammatory effect (Kelley et al. 2018; Doherty et al. 2019; Gratwicke et al. 2021).

These numerous positive properties make CherryCraft® sour cherry extract the perfect match for our Mega Mass Caps!