Peter Attia· MD
if you're at that level, your mitochondria are so remarkable that your carbohydrate tolerance is unbelievable.
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if you're at that level, your mitochondria are so remarkable that your carbohydrate tolerance is unbelievable.
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and again we would hold them up as the absolute benchmark of the like i don't think anybody has a better mitochondria than a professional cyclist right um again we might be splitting hairs here you could argue the world's greatest marathon runner has an equally good you know kipchoge's mitochondria are just as good and by whatever metric he would be just as efficient
others have looked into the the muscles of athletes and find found that uh they have more than twice the mitochondrial mass of the average person