The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
we talked about blood flow restriction training which as you will hear is a really incredible modality for people who are injured people who have muscle wasting and for those of us who are just looking to optimize by limiting the amount of venous outflow from our muscles we appear to be able to turn on stem cells and the muscles and trigger some really unique factors that will lead to muscle growth
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so this is a topic that became of interest you know not that long ago right maybe in the last 25 years or so when it was demonstrated that if you applied a tourniquet around a limb as it was exercising um you would see Superior uh improvements in strength and muscle size relative to an unic limb again provided they were both doing the same amount of work so um the you know the question is why perhaps right so why is it that applying a tourni it well anybody who's done bfr can tell you it's not very comfortable right so when you impair Venus return slightly and that's really the goal of Blood Flow Restriction it's not complete occlusion it's partial occlusion you are allowing the accumulation of metabolites at a much higher rate right so more lactic acid is pooling more metabolites of of metabolism beyond that and um the the thought is that something about that is creating more of a stress signal than would otherwise be present absent the tourniquet