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James Krieger on Volume Study Controversy, Testosterone, Insulin

Brains and Gains with Dr. David Maconi

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Is Baseline Testosterone Predicting How Much You Gain Muscle?

Androgen receptor density is actually a much bigger factor than total testosterone levels. I think it's very plausible that somebody with 300 nanograms per deciliter testosterone could get much bigger if other genetic factors are in place to do so. So yeah. There's so many other factors, you know, regulated at the muscle tissue itself that have nothing to do with hormones.

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