Einstein's Muscle

Einstein’s Muscle is a microcosm of Macroman & The Marvelous Mannequins in that the same principles of energy exchange apply within a single muscle as at the total body/macro-level. It’s like Google Earth where we move from the grand, sky-high satellite view down to the ground where it’s all happening.

No other model in the world visually depicts a concrete view of the bloodstream, glucose, the insulin receptor, and the muscle in context of their integrative, physical relationships.

In short, Einstein’s Muscle shows the energetic relationship between food and exercise science inside the body down to the simplest level. Like the figurines, Einstein’s Muscle enables people to understand nutrition and their body in ways that other methods cannot.

Behold Einstein’s Muscle!

Visualize the reality of glucose streaming through your blood vessels on its way to be stored as glycogen in the muscle.

Lay translation: Understand how carbohydrate becomes blood sugar; learn that blood sugar gets delivered to muscle and is stored as energy that you may burn during exercise.

Because it is simple, it is effective for teaching children, teenagers, or health conscious adults essential principles of nutrition, anatomy, health, and exercise science.

And because it shows energy in the blood as a literal thing that is delivered and transformed into other forms of energy, an advanced inquiry into subjects such as nutrition, exercise physiology, biochemistry, disease development, and a variety of physiological/medical conditions is made possible.

Hence, Einstein’s Muscle allows for instructing medical students, athletes, and health professionals about a variety physiological/medical conditions, principles of biochemistry, exercise physiology, anatomy, and nutrition.

I simply adjust the content and delivery to the audience.

Visualize the insulin receptor as the ‘gatekeeper’ for the muscle, refusing to allow glucose into the muscle for storage… unless these two conditions are met:

1. Insulin "piggybacks" glucose into the muscle.
2. The "gatekeeper" (receptor) is not resistant to insulin and thus allows entry! *

* If the receptor is resistant then glucose ‘stacks up’ in the bloodstream, creating the condition we call high blood sugar, and if chronic, we call it Type II or Adult Onset Diabetes. The still-shot of Einstein’s Muscle on this website clearly shows glucose stacking up in the bloodstream in front of the insulin receptor.