Diary of Dr. V. M. Bathory-De Veres
June 2002
For the past several years, I had spent a considerable portion of my spare time and money researching muscle growth and strength in humans. I had always been intrigued with the idea of increasing human potential beyond its current limits, preferably by several orders of magnitude. To this end, I had constructed my own lab in an abandoned warehouse near the waterfront. The rent was cheap and the location convenient to my "real" work.
Over time, I had aquired samples of various DNA from different species
(even some un-differentiated neandrathal DNA) and had worked to splice the strands appropriate to strength together with human DNA in the hope that the combination would become viable. My preliminary research showed that while it was possible to successfully perform this sort of "gene therapy", the results were not nearly potent enough for what I was hoping to achieve.
Experiments on test animals showed an increase in strength (and resultant size) of about 100-150% which was good but not great.
My next series of experiments involved a purely synthetic compound which caused existing muscle tissue to strengthen and rematrix itself into a more efficient pattern while stimulating nutrient absorbtion, size increase and actual cell reproduction. I found that by splicing the synthetic DNA onto human genome patterns in the same fashion as I had done with my earlier DNA experiments, it was possible, in theory, to "rebuild" all the muscle tissue in a person's body with a new and improved form of muscle. The body's own cell replacelment mechanism would pass the new codes into the regenerated cells. By modifying the sequencing somewhat, I was also able to compensate for changes in muscle strength at a tendon and bone level.
Unfortunately, there were two drawbacks to this approach. First of all, for the rematrixing to occur, the subject would require massive amounts of nutrients (or at least differentiable energy sources) to cause the change to occur with any speed at all. The second drawback was that it was impossible to test on animals. My synthetic was specifically tailored to human sequencing and therefore required human subjects for testing.
I felt that my best chance for acquiring a subject would be to advertise in the local gyms for a volunteer interested in trying a new form of supplementation. It was admittedly a little misleading but then I couldn't afford to be completely honest without the FDA and have a dozen other organizations coming down on me pretty hard. I went around to the bulliten boards in all the Detroit gyms I knew and posted my notice:
WANTED
Volunteer/spokesperson for new line of suppliments. Must be in excellent health. Must be willing to get HUGE. Bodybuilders a plus.
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