Nutrition
For your general diet, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind. Firstly, make sure you maintain a balanced diet. You need carbs, and you also need fruits, vegetables, milks/cheeses/yogurts, and proteins. Try to moderate processed foods and eat wholesome, the healthier your diet the healthier your wings will grow. You should feel like you're in a better mood, and that you're more alert, and that you have more energy – all of which will make the next phase that much easier.
A huge part in being prepared to grow wings will be controlled by your levels of folic acid. You may know this from Health class as something they instruct pregnant women to take, and there are good reasons for it. It will help prevent anemia, and it will facilitate the absorption of other nutrients. It is also involved in the production of DNA, which will be vital in producing trillions of new cells. You can get folic acid from leafy greens, citrus, and most multivitamins.
Protein is also going to be very important. If you are eating the recommended amount of protein, then try to increase it by around 50%. If you're already consuming more than the recommended amount of protein, keep that up.
- Fun Fact: Dark skinned people from like Africa, have darker skin because strong UV radiation destroys folic acid in the body, which reduces contraception, aka, successful pregnancies. So the darker skin makes it harder for that UV radiation to target and destroy the folic acid. Likewise, lighter skinned people from like Europe, have light skin because there doesn't need to be as much melatonin present because the UV radiation isn't nearly as strong that far North.
Iron is very important as well. You can use an iron supplement, you can cook more in cast-iron pans, or you can eat iron heavy foods like red meat, egg yolks, spinach, and dried fruits. Calcium is another thing that you need to get in fairly large amounts.
Try to limit caffeine consumption. Some people in our community seem to have a heavy addiction to caffeine, and that will poorly impact your wings – if you can properly start growing them, anyway. Caffeine IS a drug, and if you want to stand your best chance of getting wings you need to cut out all drugs and alcohol for the next ten months or so. This also means no smoking.
Exercise and Physique is everything, and even more so than growing the wings themselves. This is because wings will use up a huge amount of stamina just to flap, never mind grow, and it will use a whole new set of muscles, along with a lot of the existing ones. So while you're growing them, don't be afraid to step it up, and you don't need the gym for that, plenty can be done outside. After all that's where you will be flapping and whatnot anyways, so get used to the outdoors. It's important to note that, your weight should be about 18-20% body fat, females and 12-15% body fat, males. We are already dense in our bones, so the lighter we can get, the easier it will be for us to fly or glide around (and look pretty hot doing it as well).
Wing Growth
There's varied hypotheses about how wings will grow but I'll give my take on it. I believe it will start off as a bunch of stem cells in the lower lateral scapular region that will form something to what the base of a deer's antler looks and behaves like. In the beginning after the phantom shifts, new tissues will start to form, and veins, muscles and tendons will follow after. I believe the majority of the growing phase will not be visible and take place internally, because of all these complex structures that have yet to form, structures that usually takes years as a baby to mature. I think once the internal structures are complete, then the visible progress will be seen and progress rapidly. It's kind of like, once it's finished internally, there's truly no going back because now it's out of your control.
The wings will not rip out of your back as many once thought, and the idea has even been proposed in stories and anime, but that doesn't seem logical to me. I think, just as a deer's antler, they will grow with some type of nourishing material on/surrounding them in the very beginning, for deer it is a velvet as they call it, material; veiny and supplying lots of blood and nutrients to the ever growing boned antler, until it is done growing.
It is also to my belief that Avian's may not have well, regular bird feathers that birds fly with. Even if that's what you pictured and wanted, it is not in our DNA, and if your wings are truly sprouting, then they will be made up entirely of what genes we currently have in our DNA, from our ancient ancestors. The feathers will be an entirely new type of feather. I believe they could be almost hairlike, and instead of allowing us to fly, they may actually help us be gliders instead. The wings could also be very membraneous, which is common amongst bats and pterodactyl species.
On the subject of flying, when we do fly, because of our dense bone structure, it will most likely need to be off of a cliff or building, some really tall structure. This is because we won't have the strength to actually lift ourselves off the ground because we are so big, but if you catch a nice wind current or jet stream, as long as you're in fit condition, you should have no problem in the sky.
A point I want to make is, I don't think we have much control over what type of wings we get. Sure it's fun to think we could control everything to the last detail, but that isn't logical and that's not how evolution works. It shouldn't matter about the type of wings you get, it should matter that you defied modern science and did the impossible, that you are a new subspecies of Human.
You are an Avian.
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