Ep 367 - Q&A
Iron Culture presented by MASS
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, hosts Eric Trexler and Eric Helms explore a wide range of topics including the culture of bodybuilding, the impact of step counts on health, protein intake nuances, and the effects of various performance-enhancing drugs. They also address common misconceptions and recent research findings, providing practical insights for fitness enthusiasts and professionals alike.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
05:26 Who can claim to be a "Bodybuilder"
14:35 Protein Intake and Muscle Protein Synthesis
25:39 Soy Intake and Its Effects on Hormones
31:10 Step count "limits"
39:44 Clarification related to soy intake
44:32 Trex research updates & Constrained Energy Expenditure Model
56:50 Exercise energy compensation: natural vs enhanced lifters
01:04:52 Hypertrophy and Proximity to Failure: Insights from Meta-Analysis
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? It is me, Eric Trexler. You are listening to Iron Culture. I am joined by |
| 0:10.3 | the Dr. Eric Helms. Helms. How are we doing tonight? I am baffled that you still don't understand |
| 0:17.3 | that it is not tonight here. Just before we started recording, I mentioned that I was drinking Pepsi Max and I'd be wired all night, |
| 0:23.7 | forgetting that it is still the morning here in New Zealand. |
| 0:27.5 | Are you guys still doing that internationally? |
| 0:29.6 | You haven't started using American time as your default time? |
| 0:34.1 | No. |
| 0:35.7 | And also there's no such thing as American Time. There's actually, I think, what, four time zones, central. No, no, no, if you include in Hawaii, you got five, maybe six with Alaska. Well, New York is the financial capital of the world. And so I think that's kind of America time, right? Oh, let's let's just be clear. You just stated |
| 0:58.1 | that New York time, not even Eastern standard time, should be the time for all the U.S. |
| 1:03.0 | Right. I think you have probably just alienated everyone as a coastal elite, which is surprising |
| 1:08.1 | considering you're just a southern boy from North Carolina. |
| 1:12.2 | Listen, I know how the bread gets buttered. I see all the trading and the cultivation of wealth |
| 1:21.0 | happening in New York, keeping the global economy humming along. And so if they tell me it's 2 p.m. |
| 1:26.4 | in the afternoon, I'm inclined to agree with |
| 1:27.9 | them. Hey, well, I'm good with that. As long as you can take the heat from being a coastal |
| 1:34.8 | elite, but I'm fine with it. Yeah, I'm prepared for that. All right, Helms, we have, let's see, |
| 1:42.0 | we've had a streak here where we've done some pre-recorded episodes, some |
| 1:46.3 | crossover episodes, some deep dive episodes, but something we've been lacking on lately has been |
| 1:52.8 | Q&A's, which back before we merged mass office hours with Iron Culture to bring you Iron Culture presented by the Mass Research Review. |
| 2:03.0 | Before we did that, we had a whole podcast that was just live Q&As. And so we have fallen behind |
| 2:10.0 | on our database of questions that people are constantly submitting. You go over to mass |
| 2:15.7 | research review.com slash iron culture, and that's where |
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