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Episode 215: The Extreme Exercise Hypothesis

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Athletes Heart Is Definitely a Thing

The body is readily adaptable or you die as it turns out. With endurance focused training, all four chambers of the heart tend to grow in size and thickness. The increase in left ventricular thickness is typically greater than what's seen in resistance training. Amateur strength athletes who are using androgenic anabolic steroids show a significant increase inleft ventricular hypertrophy. In addition to impaired systolic and diastolic function, i.e. heart failure in amateur strength athletes,. structural cardiac changes associated with the dose of steroids being used.

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