Dr. Andy Galpin

We will use it judiciously in different things.

But I'm also, I'm not worried about it.

If you ask me what am I concerned more about, the small amount of adaptation that I miss versus not being sick, that's an easy exchange for me.

Categorically, here's how we think about it.

Again, athlete or non-athlete, it doesn't actually matter.

There are times when we're trying to induce adaptation.

When we're doing that, we're going to want to let those stress things happen.

And then there's times when we're trying to peak.

We call this optimization versus peaking.

If I'm peaking...

I don't care about adaptation.

I'm trying to maximize performance in the short term.

In that case, we are going way up on antioxidants.

We're going way up on vitamin C. Don't want to get sick.

Want you to feel great.

We want you to perform at your best right now.

If that compromises some adaptation, fine.

I don't care because we're trying to get the max performance right now.

If we're concerned about long-term optimization.

I can't emphasize this enough.