Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Also, you mentioned when you're talking about adaptations, the different things that are happening.

There's the inflammatory response.

There's the hormonal responses that are happening.

There's a lot of things that are happening, right?

And so those things have different time courses.

Yeah.

we're talking about muscle protein synthesis, right?

You're talking about it's elevated for 48 hours after exercise.

And I know I had Luke Van Loon on, you know, not long ago, and he's done at least one study, I think two, looking at cold water immersion and muscle protein synthesis.

And he was saying, yeah, I mean, you know, because the cold water immersion causes vasoconstriction.

So not only are you not getting, you know, the inflammatory mediators to where they need to be and all that signaling, you know, molecules and things like that,

amino acids are not going to muscle either as readily.

And so he was saying, you know, you might want to, you know, wait 24 hours, like basically.

I'm like, so that sounds like a recovery day, but some people are training every day.

Some people are training every day.

I mean, I don't know if they should be training seven days, you know, maybe six days.

I don't know.

But I guess a recovery day can be,

Your endurance aerobic day, because I don't know if that's really been shown that it's blunting any adaptations.

In fact, there's been some performance enhancements, right?