And we're back! Apologies for the temporary hiatus, folks. Just in case you missed this one, here's a great NYT story about how there are turning out to be more differences between the way men and women respond to exercise science than researchers originally thought.
New studies are finding that women react differently to protein during recovery; they pack fewer carbohydrates into their muscles for fuel; and they sustain less muscle damage during hard intervals than their male counterparts. It's not completely clear what this means yet -- we still need more research that includes females. (Exercise studies have typically used only male "guinea pigs" and just assumed the same results applied to estrogen-enhanced athletes.) But the hope is that these findings (and the ones to follow) will eventually help us train better for our body types and improve our understanding of why we perform the way we do.
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