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Welcome everyone this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today

we're going to talk about one of my most exciting new discoveries and that is blood flow

restriction training which I perceive to be the greatest innovation in exercise training

in the last century and maybe even longer.

So I've got a lot of videos and written information on that but briefly it's one of the reasons

I'm so excited I see it provides a practical tool of resource that virtually everyone

can use to get the benefits of conventional strength training which uses really heavy

weights typically 70 to 85% of your one rep max which can be significant and precludes

that from most elderly people because they just can't lift it that be a weight.

So blood flow restriction training run done properly will provide almost all the benefits

and then some and will probably touch what some of those benefits are later but we have

the person who is responsible for bringing this marvelous innovation to the United States

because it was developed by a Japanese professor Sato in 1966 and remained in Japan still

is to this day until literally this decade.

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