Beat Your Genetics?Myostatin or Follistatin

The most common thing you'll hear someone who can't break a plateau or someone who is just a hard gainer say is "my genetics won't let me grow". As humans when we are frustrated we come to conclusions all on our own because its natural for us to want to make sense of things we don't understand. Sometimes you gotta look at the facts instead of making your own. The only muscle limiting factor in our body we can actually prove has any bearing on our ability to gain lean skeletal muscle is a protein called Myostatin. This protein is released by myocites that act directly on muscle cells to inhibit or slow the rate of myogenesis (muscle growth). Now just because you heard the word inhibit doesn't mean all hope is lost, in fact, it's constantly preached that the human body has no trouble at all consistently forming an adaptation. That's why were able to grow in our strength and mass because our body deems it as a necessity for survival. When we workout concentrations of Myostatin go down and concentrations of Follistatin increase to repair damaged muscle cells. Lack of the protein myostatin genetically results in a sequentially high follistatin production allowing for higher genetic muscle mass. So before I address Follistatin lets understand that Myostatin is somewhat like a reminder of how much muscle your body actually requires to remain efficient based on your environment and lifestyle.