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THE GREAT BULKING DEBATE (Mike Israetel, Menno Henselmans vs Greg Nuckols, Eric Trexler)

The Jeff Nippard Podcast

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Can Body Fat Percentage Affect Muscle Gain?

In studies that actually separate people out by inflammation, body fat is a completely meaningless contributor in those studies. In practice, I probably say that if we can measure all of these things directly in a client, for example, if I could measure them only in a clients, I wouldn't use body fat percentage anymore as a proxy. But given that we don't know in practice, I think it makes sense to go by body fat percentage is one of the few metrics we have some we can quantify in some way. If anyone wants to speak up, you can just leave your mic unmuted so it doesn't just makes it easier to have a free flowing chat if you want to.

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