Dr. Andy Galpin

Most of the time, muscle tissue is fine.

We're certainly not tearing down a lot of tissue in our cardiovascular system.

This is more of a signaling issue than it is a damage issue.

And we know that because you can induce those same adaptations if you cut those first parts of the equation out.

So I can give you things that simply ramp up adaptation that don't require damage at all.

I do not have to have inflammation to induce adaptation.

That is the primary signal though.

Same token.

If I give you an inflammatory agent without any tissue damage at all, I can get similar adaptation.

So we can cause physiological responses with an inflammatory marker that comes in rather than an actual tissue damage.

So those things are independent of itself.

It's not there.

But you laid out the basic cascade, some sort of inflammatory immune response there, some sort of tissue edema swelling, and then some sort of back cascade.

Why supplements, why different tools, why different recovery protocols work and why they matter is because they can target any aspect of that.

The front side works.

Or the backside.

The insult coming in or the adaptive response.

And you can play a game any part of that area.

We will use different solutions based on why we think that the thing happened in the first place.

So that is our overall framework of how we set up recovery in this context.