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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals

Huberman Lab

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Is There a Micro Insult in Exercise?

When Dr. Galvin says insult, while he may actually insult me, insult is the nerd-speak terminology for some sort of damage inflicted to a tissue or system. It's important we tag another thing here which is called homeces and it effectively means this, that there is a dosage or toxicity response to almost everything. If you think about this in the context of say drugs, what this means is if I gave you 10 milligrams of something, that it would be okay. But if I gaveYou 20, it'd be a problem. And eventually if I go up and give you enough, this thing turns toxic. This is the case of everything from cyanide where it can

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