The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The elite athletes have the perfect metabolism, and mitochondria is at the epicenter of metabolism and health, as you said earlier. There are no other population in the planet with the mitochondria of elite endurance athletes.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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It really, in my mind, comes down to cyclists and runners. Yes, and triathletes. Even more than swimmers because of just the duration of it. It's these people who can go out and function at their anaerobic thresholds for hours. And that's only really found in two sports. Oh, yes. And that's what we see that even with an elite athlete, and I work with many elite athletes, yeah, you compare them and there'll be huge differences.