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#210 Christian Thibaudeau l THIBARMY, T-NATION, Strength Coach

Dave Tate's Table Talk

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The Effects of Cortisol on Muscle Growth

When you overload all those endogenic receptors, they are using all the available second messenger. So cortisol cannot do its job properly. Part of the reason why you're gaining muscle is not just the increase in metabolism. It's a decrease in catabolism. But the body will try to balance things out. When it sees that cortisol can't do its job proper, what does the body do? I'm going to try to compensate by producing more cortisol. The best supplement to blood cortisol or reduced cortisol is food, especially carbohydrates.

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