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That's not what I took away from "Exercised", from "Burn", or even "Comfort Crisis". Yes, nutrients are required to recover but it's not as much as we're typically led to believe.

Inflammation (read: the mitigation of) also plays a significant role in health.

And, of course, there's the gut and gut microbes.

We survived and evolved and that was more than a story about amino acids. Or at least that's my current interpretation of the process to date.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/exercised/home

https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy...

https://eastermichael.com/book/

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