I can't remember the chapter but i remember when Luffy first started using gear second Lucchi said that whenever he uses it, it'll eat away at his life. If someone remembers what i'm talking about can you confirm if this is supposed to be correct or maybe some mistranslation?
i think when lucci said he was slowly chipping away at his life he meant it metaphorically
i inferred it meatn that luffy would ultimately lose, that desperately using gear second would only extend his death, but he will eventually just die, that he should just give up and stop pulling stunts like that
luffy responds that it's better than just standing there as a freefrag and see his friends get hurt
increased blood flow gives you greater oxygen amounts provided to the muscles, and more glycogen, which are essentially fuels allowing you to use your muscles without nutrients as a bottleneck. using more strength just means you wear out faster, but you get to hit stronger.
vasodilation can be achieved naturally through long periods of training, where your body's own NO release catches up with your oxygen shortage in that particular muscle (see professional bodybuilders and the size of their veins), or through various supplements like the protein L-arginine, a precursor to nitric oxide, in addition to working out
i don't see how it could physically reduce anyone's life. if anything, these bodybuilders with their huge vasodiltaed veins are more likely to grow older healthier than any average person
luffy being rubber could of course artificially increase blood flow by pooling blood in his calves then pumping it all up in one shot rapidly. once the process is kickstarted, his heart chambers should be responsible for keeping it going as long as he keeps it lax enough to take in copious amounts of blood between contractions. he should then get the benefits of increased oxygen, increased glycogen provided to muscles, hence an increased useable strength limit, a higher metabolism, higher recovery, but faster using up of glycogen stores that eventually leads to hypoglycaemia and faster rate of acquiring muscular fatigue from microtrauma
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It's the equivalent of rock lee's gate opening.
how anyone could say 'rock lee's body will get used to it' is beyond me
the whole point of gates is to remove mental limiters, allowing your body to use close to its upper physical limits. say your body, to keep itself safe, limits itself to using only 40% of your max strength. removing the mental limiters, you raise it to 90%, where you stay awfully close to the limit and your muscles are receiving damage from every move.
no matter how strong rock lee gets, he will always only be safe at using 40% of his max strength, and opening the gates to 90% will always cause huge damage to himself. there is NO way anyone can adapt to that
luffy's gear 2 is analogous to that. it's removing physical limiters of nutrient provision (glycogen AND oxygen) to his muscles, allowing for better muscle use, but at a greater rate of fatigue (just like weightlifting, even if you could dumbbell bench 30KG x6, u raise it to 35KG and u could easily drop to just 2 reps before failure), because your muscles receive much more damage per move and your glycogen stores are limited (unless u have a dextrose IV drip constantly plugged in, or your're a gifted ketogenic with huge fat stores. in other words, practically not possible).
now luffy should train with zoro while using gear 2. his strength would increase exponentially if he used that during the workouts, and after for the recovery
