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How to Best Optimize Your Muscular Health - Discussion Between Georgi Dinkov, Tyler Lebaron, & Dr. Mercola

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

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The Superiority of Eccentric Exercise in Strength Performance and Hypertrophy

Jordy: I think it's important you did clarify one point that Dr. Rokola didn't say before regarding the concentric versus centric in terms of the mitochondrial biogenesis. There's a lot of data that would show that eccentric exercise is a centric running, eccentric cycling. A lot of these simply don't have as much oxygen consumption, right? The O2 costs is a lot lower. And also during that eccentric exercise, you're damaging the contractile proteins or breaking down, you know, the architecture of the sarclomeres. So yes, in those regards, it doesn't seem that there would be any stimulus, at least not near as much compared

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