Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Let's throw it in the bucket.

I don't see a big downside just in case.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, we'll hopefully get into some of that because I want to get into recovery.

This is an area where it's very important, as, of course, you know, but I don't know that a lot of people focus on recovery, although it's becoming, I think, more popular.

Increasing, more awareness is, I think, being generated now.

But I was thinking maybe you could kind of just start by walking people through the physiological process of what's going on during recovery.

Why is it so important?

I guess you're talking about the shifts in inflammation and immune response and cellular repair, all the things that are happening in response to the workload that you've applied and the inflammation that you've generated and the oxidation that you've generated.

I think I'm thinking more about adaptations that are occurring to improve muscle mass and strength and your cardiorespiratory fitness, for example.

Okay.

So then let's take a step forward and talk a little bit about what you were asking me.

And that would be like, how can...

person an athlete sort of know if they what can they what kind of metrics can they look at to help signal if they are if they're helping if they're if they're normally sort of recovering from their training versus not so then muscle soreness the injury like what what sort of metrics first most important metric is how are you feeling

Okay, so let's say you have muscle soreness again.

We're back to the muscle soreness.

So the level of blood flow, and you're saying for a long period of time.

So what I'm doing is a short, I'm doing 30 minute run.

What's going on here?