Andrew Huberman· PhD
So for example, it's easy to see a paper that says, okay, we put you in a hot bath or something, and we saw a growth hormone increase 300%. That is not going to result in 300% increase in muscle size, right? In fact, 300% might result in absolutely no change in a physical size, right? And the reason I'm saying this is because there's a lot of people in this space that will misapply the mechanisms. And they'll grossly overestimate what these things can do and what they do do, because they'll find something like that. I mean you know this, you've done enough cellular work too. In the lab, if I see mTOR doubled, I think shit, it didn't work. I need to see a 10 X increase before I know it's even physiologically relevant. So reading that paper, reading someone's social media post, you're like wow, it increased mTOR 38%. I'm like, well, that didn't work. And you're like, wow, that's huge. I'm like, that's not 38% increase in muscle size.