Dr. Andy Galpin

No one knows.

Yes, like stop doing the basic one.

We know that answer.

There's like seven studies at least now that have done it.

We get it.

I don't know, right?

If you look at our time course stuff we've done on like gene expression, that happens within seconds.

Signaling happens within seconds and is ramped up for minutes to hours post-exercise, depending on the marker and things like that.

Gene expression typically peaks three to four to six hours, again, depending on the one you're looking at for muscle anabolism.

Muscle protein synthesis, you're at 48 hours.

So I don't know, because people always ask, what if I lift in the morning and ice at night?

I don't know.

Is it four to six hours?

That's where that number comes from, by the way.

It's like all the time course research on gene expression.

You're also talking about like four or five genes that were in that study.

So it's not like it's exact, like complete mapping of the entire anabolic genetic response.

It's like a few of the markers.

Some of them are at four, but they weren't all.

Some of them peaked at an hour.