Muscle Minds Podcast with Scott Stevenson

[MR. BMJ]

Will post up each new Muscle Minds episode in this thread. If you want to go back and catch up on all the previous older episodes, here is a link to the main ThinkBig page:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkBIGBodybuilding

This podcast features Scott McNally and Dr. Scott Stevenson, who has posted under the name Homonunculus at several forums for like 2 decades.

Please hit the like button for the show to keep it going.

Here is the most recent one below.

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Muscle Minds Episode 139: Melatonin Bodybuilding Science
12/23/2022

0:00 teaser
1:10 Intro
5:45 Melatonin in Bodybuilding
8:00 Oxidative Stress
13:50 As we age, adaptive capacity drops
17:00 How Melatonin works
19:30 Melatonin mechanisms
21:40 Obesity and oxidative stress
22:40 aging and obesity
24:00 Melatonin, Muscle Injury & Training Adaptation
31:00 Study: Melatonin replacement in aging rodents
37:50 Study : Melatonin, Muscle Wasting
49:20 Melatonin and Fat Loss
51:55 Melatonin and Brown fat
55:10 Melatonin: Other Thoughts
1:02:00 Melatonin Trade Offs
1:06:45 What do you think?

 

[MR. BMJ]

Episode 140: RAT STUDIES Pros & Cons in Bodybuilding
1/22/2013

0:00 teaser
0:40 Intro
4:00 The shades of gray
8:45 Why are we doing millions of rat studies a year if they are worthless?
11:40 Animal Models of Exercise
27:00 Study showing similar hypertrophy in Rats and Humans
36:15 Muscle Growth in Animals vs Humans
41:30 Differences between Rats and Humans
46:00 Some things you just can’t do with humans
48:40 Humans are NOT Hard Science
59:30 Hierarchy of Scientific Evidence

 

[MR. BMJ]

Episode 141: Mike Mentzer Lecture Reaction
2/4/2023