Episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast (hosts Ben Greenfield and Brock Armstrong). The chunk contains the show opening, lighthearted banter about the Sochi Winter Olympics and curling (including issues at Olympic accommodations), instructions for listener question submission, and an introduction to a recent scientific study on long-term effects of anabolic steroid exposure titled 'A Cellular Memory Mechanism Aids Overload Hypertrophy in Muscle Long after Episodic Exposure to anabolic steroids.' The show frames this study in the context of cheating, doping, and steroid longevity.
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So, Brock, I'm surprised you actually showed up for today's podcast. I would have expected you to be off watching curling at the Winter Olympics.
Because curling is so thrilling, it is hard to tear myself away from the feed, I have to admit.
From the feed in Sochi, you know curling. Have you seen the curling calendars that came out on the Internet?
No.
The sexy curling calendars they actually have. Really? They have the women of curling and the men of curling and they've come out with these calendars to raise money. You know what, I don't know what they're raising money for. Curlers. Curlers Anonymous. Probably beer knowing curlers raising money for beer. So anyways, after seeing those calendars, I am personally a little bit more curling. Oh, you are? Yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised. Apparently curling can keep you relatively fit. And so, you know, I hate to.
Say anything derogatory about my countrymen, but not in Canada.
I think it leads to beer consumption and copious donuts.
Well, just be glad you're not in Sochi. I don't know if you've seen some of the feed that has come back from the Winter Olympics, but apparently it's not all that great of a place. There's completely unfinished hotel rooms and beds. They have a pillow shortage. They've run out of pillows.
I spent a lot of time in Russia in the early 90s in Minsk, and that does not surprise me. I can't imagine things changed a whole heck of a lot since then. And none of the stuff that I'm seeing coming out of that, out of the reports right now surprises me much. It's. I mean, it's just not the. It's not the Russian way. They're not hung up on things like pillows and having extra blankets and. And actually even like Dr. Clean on Toilets.
Clean drinking water. Yeah. Like the toilet toilet bowl lids installed upside down.
It's.
It's pretty.
They probably just put those on for the Olympics. So they should count themselves lucky there's a seat at all because it's just not that Russians really worry about. And in some ways, I kind of hand it to them to not be so hung up on all this, like, creature comfort kind of stuff that we place so much, so much importance on.
Yes, it's very Putinesque. I was thinking about that. Like, they're taking all of the other countries way outside their comfort zone, which is kind of cool in a way. So if any of our listeners, they're.
Showing what badasses they are.
Really. That's right. Very, very Putinesque. If any of our listeners are over at the Sochi Olympics, write us in or call the show. Yeah. Send some photos, let us know how it is. And for those of you who don't know how to ask questions for the show, just go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com and there's like a little right sidebar thingamajig. And you click on that and.
The magic of the Internet opens up its arms to you and allows you to actually record using your own voice and the built in microphone on your computer.
So I think it's called a thingamajig. I think it might be a thingama doodle.
Yeah.
Technically speaking.
News flashes.
And this is the part of the show where Ben goes through all the latest, coolest, and most in depth thingama doodles that he's come across on the Internets.
That's right. And speaking of the Olympics, why don't we jump right in and talk about cheating, doping and steroid use? I love it. This was a very interesting study that was published. It was actually published in October, but kind of hit the presses earlier this week. And the title of the study was A Cellular Memory Mechanism Aids Overload Hypertrophy in Muscle Long after Episodic Exposure to anabolic steroids.
So basically showing the longevity of using steroids, it doesn't just end when you stop using it.
Yeah, Basically in a nutshell, in plain speak, the non geek speak, what that study showed was that when you get exposed to performance.
