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Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 4:31 pm
by Vision
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C60 makes muscles tireless

C60 makes muscles tireless
The nanomolecule C60, which mimics the action of enzymes such as SOD in the mitochodria, is marketed as a longevity supplement. Those supplements also seem to be catching on in sports. Maybe with good reason, suggests an animal study that Ukrainian biophysicists from Taras Shevchenko National University published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology.

C60 for athletes
If you believe the testimonials on sites that sell C60, bodybuilders lose fat when they use C60. At the same time, they are able to work out more intensively and notice that old injuries heal.

Runners who supplement with C60 after grueling competitions seem to recover faster, and are surprised to find that they have no sore muslces or painful joints. Swimmers taking C60 break their personal records. And hey - older athletes suddenly notice that they no longer need their glasses. Of course.


You read similar stories on Reddit and athlete forums.

So - if we ignore the stories about improved eyesight by C60 users, should we take these anecdotes seriously? The Ukrainian animal study, which appeared in 2017 by the way, suggests so.

Study
The researchers injected a leg muscle from anesthetized rats - the triceps surae to be precise - with 0.15 milligrams per kilogram of body weight C60, dissolved in water. They injected the same muscle, in the leg on the other side of the body, with salt water. (The white bars)
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The Ukrainians waited an hour, and then administered a series of electrical stimuli to both muscles, causing the muscles to contract. The researchers determined the force with which the muscles contracted.

Results
The strength that the muscles injected with C60 [the gray bars] developed decreased significantly less quickly during the successive electrical stimuli than that of the muscles that were injected with salt water [the white bars].

Conclusion
Sure, injecting muscles is very different from using supplements with droplets of olive oil with C60. What can you expect from taking C60 orally?

And then those darn side effects. According to the researchers, the dose they gave their rats has no side effects, but frankly, we are less and less reassured that C60 is safe. Informed readers send us studies that make our hair stand on end.

Part 2

Do elite athletes secretly use C60? We jokingly asked this question two days ago, when we wrote a post about the effect of intramuscular injections of C60. After reading an animal study that researchers from the Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport published in Frontiers in Physiology, we ask this question again, but this time we are serious. According to the Poles, C60 is orally available.

Study

The experimental design of the Poles is very similar to that of the study of the Ukrainian biophysicists in which laboratory animals received intramuscular injections. A difference between the two studies is that the Poles did not inject their active substances intramuscularly, but injected them into the small intestine of their lab rats. And yes, there was also a group of rats that were given C60 orally.

By the way, the Poles used C60 dissolved in water.

The researchers injected a group of lab rats with 0.14 milligrams of C60 per kilogram of body weight into their small intestines. After the injection, the researchers stimulated the triceps surae in the hind legs of the rats with several series of electric pulses, and at the same time measured with how much force the muscle could contract.

Another group of rats were given a daily oral dose of 0.225 milligrams C60 per kilogram of body weight for 5 days. If the rats had been humans, they would have been givenn 2-3 milligrams of C60 daily. This corresponds to doses mentioned by experiences users on the boards.

The researchers injected rats in other groups with a relevant dose of beta-alanine or N-acetylcysteine into their small intestine.

Results
The bottom left of the figure below shows the rapid decrease of the force with which the leg muscles could contract during the successive series of stimuli. The bottom right shows how both the intestinal injections with C60 and the orally administered C60 prevented this decrease.
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C60FAS = C60 Fullerene Aqueous Colloid Solution.

The figure above compares the effect of C60 with that of beta-alanine and N-acetylcysteine. In this experimental design, the substances are not inferior to each other. However, the researchers note that in a few lab animals that were given C60, the measured muscle strength increased during the experiment. This increase did not occur in the test animals in other groups.

Mechanism
As far as Poles can determine, C60, beta-alanine and N-acetylcysteine ​​work in a similar way. They reduce free radical damage, inhibit the formation of lactic acid and make that the muscle cells have to produce less antioxidant enzymes such as catalase and SOD.
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Does C60 have any side effects?
We are still not sure about that. Still coming.


Source:
Front Physiol. 2018 May 15;9:517.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00517/full

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 5:43 am
by Phill
interesting, really interesting

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:14 pm
by Vision
Phill wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 5:43 am interesting, really interesting
YOU would be the best athlete with your conditioning to try this.. I couldn't think of anyone better to run these, than you.
Can you score some and give us some feedback?

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:57 pm
by Phill
Vision wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:14 pm
Phill wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 5:43 am interesting, really interesting
YOU would be the best athlete with your conditioning to try this.. I couldn't think of anyone better to run these, than you.
Can you score some and give us some feedback?
I just have to find a good "certified" product.

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:10 pm
by MONSTRO
Olive oil???? Portugal has the best quality olive oil on market and very cheap. Here we buy pure olive oil 0.3% acid at 4 euros per litre.
We will grow in Portugal :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:15 pm
by Vision
MONSTRO wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:10 pm Olive oil???? Portugal has the best quality olive oil on market and very cheap. Here we buy pure olive oil 0.3% acid at 4 euros per litre.
We will grow in Portugal :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'll trade you some grapefruit juice fore some olive oil?!?!?! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:27 pm
by MONSTRO
Lets do it Vision . Olive oil here is like McDonalds in America , grow day by day.

But do you think is the new enhanced oil used now? no more Synthol?

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:48 am
by Vision
Uh oh... Hold off on the c60?? C60 "supplements are contaminated"..Hmmmm

C60 supplements are contaminated

Not all C60 supplements on the market are of good quality. Roughly half of C60 supplements contain contaminants in the form of dubious substances such as toluene and xylene. French researchers report this in Materials.
Study
The researchers bought 4 lots of C60 and analyzed them in their lab. They named their samples S1, S2, S3, and S4.
According to the supplements' manufacturers, the C60 products S1, S2, S3 and S4 had purities of 99.98%, greater than 99.98%, 99.9% and 99.5%, respectively. This may sound good, but these predicates were meaningless, as analysis with GC-MS showed.
Results
S1 was by far the purest product. In S3 and S4 the researchers found a motley collection of contaminants such as toluene and xylene. The substances found were not directly carcinogenic, but they are certainly not healthy.
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Conclusion

The researchers find that now that supplement companies already sell C60 and scientists are experimenting with C60, it is important that pure C60 is available.
"In order to perform successful clinical trials, the purity of an active pharmaceutical ingredient must be guaranteed and so does the purity of C60, which is already being sold for human consumption even if no official certified procedure exists to verify its purity," they write.
More coming soon.
Source:
Materials (Basel). 2019 Aug 12;12(16):2571.

Re: Do elite athletes secretly use C60?

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:23 pm
by MONSTRO
Like i always said now bodybuilders are bigger because we have more information and we always here to learn more about anything that can improve our performance and gains.
We need time to study this new product and see if is safe to use .