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#483: What Really Works for Exercise Recovery?

The Art of Manliness

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Icing and Ice Therapy

The idea behind icing, I should just back up for a moment. The idea here is that you're reducing inflammation and that's going to help. But it turns out that inflammation is a really important process of the healing process and recovery. And so two things here, one, icing just sort of temporarily reduces inflammation. So it does reduce inflammation, but as soon as you're done, icing, you know, the circulation gets back, the inflammatory agents come back to the site. And so that process proceeds.

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