New exercise technology designed for athletes increases production of 'HGH'
June 13, 2011 | Length: 00:02:17
At NASA Ames Research Park, scientist Peter Wasowski has developed an alternative exercise machine called Vasper. The user wears compression cuffs on the arms and legs and core-cooling panels on the chest and head. During exercise, the machine traps large amounts of lactic acid in the body, stimulating the pituitary gland and producing more HGH or human growth hormone.
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>>Peter Wasowski: My name is Peter Wasowski; I'm the founder and CEO of Vasper Systems. I developed an alternative exercise technology.
Pause Whenever we see young children moving around space, somebody who is 5-6-7-8 years old, we hardly ever see them walking. They're always going full speed ahead. And if you were to look inside their muscle tissue, you would see a tremendous amount of lactic acid building up as they're using up their muscles. And there is a very direct feedback from a muscle loaded with lactic acid to the brain requesting the brain to release huge amounts of growth hormone to rebuild the muscle to pre-exercise condition. Every 10 years after puberty, we lose 14% of that signal simply because we don't exercise at that same intensity. So Vasper Technology is basically designed to trap huge amounts of lactic acid and to stimulate the pituitary gland to produce your own increased secretions of human growth hormone.
Pause The user wears comparison cuffs on arms and legs as well as core cooling panels on the chest and on the head. We basically see the chest as the 60% of the circulation and the head as the 40%, so as long as we cool those two areas, we can actually drop the core body temperature.
>>Excellent.
>>Peter Wasowski: The whole idea is to design an exercise technology that does not produce sweating and, therefore, it's much easier and it shunts much more blood to the muscle tissue with higher blood oxygen levels. So this could be compared to swimming in cool water except you're out of water and you're vertical. We work a lot with professional athletes. We basically give you a two and a half hour exercise protocol in twenty minutes by core cooling the body so you produce much more lactic acid. I believe this is definitely the future of exercise.
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