405: How Hard Do You Need To Train For Muscle Gain?, Keto Muscle Building, Protecting Yourself From Pesticides & Much More!

Q&A Episode

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News Flashes...

• You do NOT need to train to failure to maximize muscle hypertrophy.
• How a ketogenic diet can potentially enhance muscle hypertrophy, or at least, stave off muscle loss.
• Coffee induces autophagy in vivo.
• Dr. Mercola’s “autophagy tea” to take before nightly fast to also limit mTor activation and increase autophagy:
  • 1 tsp Pau d’ Arco powdered tea
  • ½ tsp hydroxycitrate and garcinia (HCA/Garcinia powder)
  • ½ tsp quercetin powder
  • ½ tsp glycine powder
  • ½ teaspoon chamomile powder
  • Lakanto monk fruit sweetener to taste
• Sure, plants can be poisonous, but our ancestors knew what to do about that (more than silly cowboys).

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