Peter Attia· MD
there are situations where and it's been for decades it's been conventional wisdom that the lungs don't respond to training because they're overbuilt
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there are situations where and it's been for decades it's been conventional wisdom that the lungs don't respond to training because they're overbuilt
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there are situations where and it's been for decades it's been conventional wisdom that the lungs don't respond to training because they're overbuilt uh there was just a paper published a big review uh in the last month or two arguing that you know in some cases the lungs aren't overbuilt and one of the situations is highly trained endurance athletes they can be limited by their ability to to get enough oxygen in
for example the conventional wisdom is that your lungs are not a limitation you can always breathe enough in and so then the question is can you diffuse enough oxygen from your lungs into your bloodstream and so on and so forth
for example the conventional wisdom is that your lungs are not a limitation you can always breathe enough in and so then the question is can you uh uh diffuse enough oxygen from your lungs into your bloodstream and so on and so forth um there are situations where and and it's been for decades it's been conventional wisdom that the lungs don't respond to training because they're overbuilt uh there was just a paper published a big review uh in the last month or two arguing that you know in some cases the lungs aren't overbuilt and one of the situations is highly trained endurance athletes they can be limited by their ability to uh to get enough oxygen in