Why Most Health Advice is Wrong | John Jaquish PhD
The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show
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The Importance of Hard Past in Weightlifting
A genetic outlier, a person who puts on muscle very easily is not built like me. 23% of the population cannot with weights ever stimulate any muscular growth or protein synthesis. They can retain some glycogen in the muscle but that's not going to compound. These are the people who like the first two weeks of lifting, they put on a couple of pounds of muscle and then they work out for 10 more years and nothing happens. No matter what. So weightlifting just sucks as a stimulus because when I looked at these outliers and I was like, whoa, I know how to create that effect externally.
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