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what's up guys jeff Cavalere ax.com I'm
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Arnold Schwarzenegger So glad you
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invited me here Jeffrey I'm so glad to
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be talking about that favorite
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discussion here today which is
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masturbation Talking about coming coming
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at the gym coming at home coming
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backstage before a show Listen listen
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Can I never thought I'd ask for Jesse
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can I have Jesse please you want Jesse
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instead of me yes please Really that's
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all I had to do You're supposed to read
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the question remember oh yeah The start
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of this hole Yeah Here we go All right
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Hey Jeff I saw in your previous videos
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on masturbation and its effects on
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muscle building and strength I showed
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them to my coach and he doesn't buy it
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Can you help me to convince him that
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masturbation won't have any negative
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effects on my efforts in the gym or even
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my performance on game day and that it
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might actually be beneficial begging
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that you'll side with me here
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You wrote this I wrote this I'm not
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going to talk to you about masturbation
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habits All right So now let's re dial it
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back a little bit So there was a
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long-standing belief that partaking in
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masturbation prior to competition would
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leave you weak in the legs Weak in the
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knees Weak in the knees Right And it
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would kill your aggression A lot of it
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started with boxers and they thought
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that they shouldn't do this before a
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fight Right All right Because it became
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too calm or too too satisfied Let's put
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Mickey say something about that in Roger
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I think so I think so But that actually
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was replaced with more recent fears or
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concerns around its effect on
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testosterone because studies were done
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that showed that testosterone both total
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and free would drop after climax through
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masturbation Now the difference of that
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was that two things Number one it was a
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transient drop So like a few minutes to
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a few hours Yes like it was very
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shortlived Unless you're doing this
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chronically multiple times a day
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Am I talking to
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you this to maintain a low level of
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testosterone it really wouldn't have any
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effect Okay But what's also interesting
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is because I love the science of this I
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always love the science of endocrinology
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There's a series of checks and balances
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in the body What they didn't say there
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was that there also was an increased
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androgen receptor sensitivity to
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testosterone So if the testosterone
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levels dropped but the androgen receptor
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sensitivity went up then maybe we even
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net out to no effect at all So it
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basically offsets itself Yeah So now
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what was actually one of the conclusions
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of one of our earlier videos was that
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perhaps instead of looking for the
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negatives of masturbation there actually
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existed some more positives that would
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come from this activity But it would
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have to do with the timing of it For
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instance if you were to use this as
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let's say your favorite pre-workout Ah
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this might be my new favorite
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pre-workout then you could potentially
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have an impact on the training you're
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about to do because we know that there's
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an increase of an endocanabonoid that's
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released that binds to something called
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the CB2 receptor that actually has an
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ability to almost blunt discomfort
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Really yeah Now what that would mean is
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if you were training let's say not for
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strength but if you were training for
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hypertrophy or even like a metabolic
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hypertrophy if you could blunt the
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sensation of that burn and discomfort
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perhaps you could actually I'm going to
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say it but like last longer in those
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sets however as I always talked about
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before because of those checks and
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balances the interesting thing about
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that is it also we know has the ability
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to relax you and kind of make you feel
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calm and
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chill right now Is that really going to
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line up well with you attacking your
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workout so even if you had the capacity
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to train longer could you actually even
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want to do it because you're not even
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having the desire to do that well that
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goes back to what the coach was
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referring to that killer instinct Yeah
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But then I also pointed out that the
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most beneficial time seems to be prior
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to bed or later at night because of the
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other effect that we get and that is a
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release of oxytocin You know what
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oxytocin is that's the Oh I learned this
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one That's the love hormone It's the
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cuddle hormone right cuddle hormone So
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after reaching climax it's what makes
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you want to cuddle right it's the It's
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what makes you feel less stressed Mhm
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More relaxed closer to your partner
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right it's actually a very important
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thing I think for for men It's a very
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important hormone that exists Keeps
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relationships intact But what it does is
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it also in new sort of evidence starts
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to show something even more exciting
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What's that it specifically seems to
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speed up the time it takes us to get to
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phase three sleep or slowwave sleep I
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only know REM sleep Okay So it's this
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phase right before REM And in this
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slowwave sleep when we're talking about
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wanting to build muscle this is the most
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important wave of sleep that we have
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really because it promotes muscle
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protein synthesis Okay right it it helps
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to restore glycogen into the muscles
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that we trained It actually is the part
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where we get tissue remodeling and
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repair It's the place in our sleep where
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we get growth hormone release Okay And
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it's basically where we actually kind of
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boost overall immunity So it's very very
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important Sounds like sounds like all
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the good stuff happens there It does So
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not only are we going to speed up the
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pathway to get there but we also can
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stay in that phase longer due to the
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surge in oxytocin Okay And we know that
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masturbation can create a surge in this
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oxytocin That's pretty significant So
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the timing then becomes a big question
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So if someone were to partake in this
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activity such as myself
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when is the best time to do so it it's
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based upon the the evidence we have
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about the release of this oxytocin So
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again just like the testosterone
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decrease this is a transient increase So
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it's not going to be forever but what we
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see is 10 minutes after climax you get a
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two times amount of oxytocin in your
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body than you had prior to Wow 20
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minutes after it's three times the
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amount Really here's the catch though By
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30 minutes after release it's back to
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normal again Oh man So what would I
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suggest if you're going to try to do
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this the closer you are to sleep the
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more likely you are to see this benefit
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Okay Okay However what's not clear is we
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do know that the oxytocin released
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during climax actually allows for that
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prolonged phase three sleep and that
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phase 3 doesn't really get to you within
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30 minutes So it is possible that just
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the surge itself is what's responsible
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for setting the stage to have this
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happen But again timing it up so you can
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benefit from that faster entry or you
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know approach to phase three would
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actually be pretty useful So honestly I
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mean I'd say here that more research is
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needed right so if if you how how does
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one go about getting involved in this
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research do we get paid for our efforts
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that's what I want to Are you interested
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are you asking for a friend or for
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potentially for yourself research
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purposes so all I would say is this
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Anybody who's concerned about improving
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performance or they are a natural lifter
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the number one thing you can do as a
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natural lifter is promote recovery right
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the number one benefit from anabolic
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steroids is faster recovery They pretty
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much make recovery a non-issue If you
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can find methods and and mechanisms to
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try to speed up muscle recovery I would
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say you're on the road to actually
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something could be pretty beneficial Now
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again it's going to have to be
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consistent It's going to have to be
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something again that's timed properly
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And maybe there are going to be some new
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studies coming down the pipe here that
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could actually you know coming down the
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pipe I literally didn't mean to do that
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I didn't I did not mean to do that But
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uh anyway more research is approaching
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or or or coming
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if you can um you know experiment
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yourself you can But I'm not going to
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I'm going to answer Jeff You like to
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experiment yourself too It's all about
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me and the question to answer the
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question Um I don't see any detriment
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here If anything maybe possibly it's a
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benefit So no worries in doing what you
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got to do Oh yeah No it's a benefit and
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there's no worries in doing what I got
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to do Oh it looks like I'm going to go
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have some fun Guys if you're looking for
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get the hell out of here Come on Jeff
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You don't want to talk about this any
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further