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- Want more morning alertness? Here's what the research says: How people wake up is associated with previous night’s sleep together with physical activity and food intake…11:26
- When it comes to exercise intensity, you constantly hear that (a) HIIT lowers the risk of mortality more than moderate-intensity continuous exercise, (b) HIIT doubles endurance performance after only 15 min of training over 2 weeks, (c) 1 min of HIIT is equivalent to 45 min of moderate-intensity continuous exercise, and (d) HIIT is more pleasant and enjoyable than moderate-intensity continuous exercise. But the evidence for these claims appears questionable…20:29
- More here: Extraordinary Claims in the Literature on High-Intensity Interval Training: II. Are the Extraordinary Claims Supported by Extraordinary Evidence?
- And here: Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): IV. Is HIIT associated with higher long-term exercise adherence?
- In the whole scheme of things, whatever cardiovascular exercise program you can adhere to longest is *best*: Slow and Steady, or Hard and Fast? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Comparing Body Composition Changes between Interval Training and Moderate Intensity Continuous Training
- Some say vegan diets decrease fertility and negatively affect sperm but it's the QUALITY of the plants/plant preparation that is most important here (less of an issue with a well-comprised healthy and clean plant-based diet): The Relationship between Plant-Based Diet Index and Semen Parameters of Men with Infertility: A Cross-Sectional Study…34:51
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- Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training (illustrates the problem with research, and worth a look): Holiday reading: Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training…47:25
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Now imagine that just being one big grape. There is a lot less skin and a lot less area for oxygen to exchange. So that grape tries to get very big and stretched out and increases volume.
I find it interesting the various options are very wide the various options that one can learn with the various options and seasonal models
It is always good to know the benefits that vegan food brings us. It is always good to be updated with the alternatives that we should have.
Regarding your assertion that scientific research should be questioned, I absolutely concur.
I encourage you to approach the Bible and Christianity with the same level of skepticism.
Cigarettes increase hemoglobin because the oxygen carrying capacity of the hemoglobin decreases with smoking so to compensate for this, the body makes more hemoglobin. The oxygen levels in blood don’t increase as they do with blood doping but actually are striving to get to a normal level by adding more to help out the damaged hemoglobin.
Smoking increases lung capacity because elastic of lungs is lost. They don’t rebound like they should. They get stretched out
Also the surface area for exchange decrease
Imagine your lungs as a bunch of grapes. The skin of each grape is where oxygen exchanges. Now imagine that just being one big grape. There is a lot less skin and a lot less area for oxygen to exchange. So that grape tries to get very big and stretched out and increases volume.
Both of the mechanisms don’t help your endurance or performance at all. I’m a Respiratory Therapist
Articles like the published one are so misleading they should be criminal
Wondering, due to your lectin comment, if you’re not a big fan of the Plant Paradox book ideas?
On a similar note are there other previously condoned books, products, ideas, or practices that you no longer take/use/believe?
Hey Ben,
I agree completely with your comments about questioning scientific studies.
I would invite you to apply the same critical thinking toward the Bible and Christianity.
These r the best show notes :)