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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

How To Build Muscle with Body Building Champion Ben Pakulski

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben Pakulski is a championship bodybuilder who uses his knowledge to help people of all levels get the physique they want.  He focuses on keys to ensure your muscles are activating properly. For example, if you don’t have the glutes you want, it could be because they are not fully turning on.  Let’s discuss how you make sure your weak points are firing. https://drruscio.com/?p=26689

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.

0:15.2

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0:22.9

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0:26.9

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat

0:32.1

any disease.

0:33.2

Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.

0:37.1

Now let's head to the show.

0:41.6

Hi, everyone.

0:42.8

We wanted to share a recent interview with Dr. Risha with you.

0:46.0

If you'd like to view the video, read the transcript, or learn more.

0:49.8

Head over to the website.

0:51.2

We hope you enjoy it.

0:53.5

Hey, guys, I'm here with Big Ben Pekulski.

0:56.5

Big.

0:57.5

Extra big. We're going to be talking about how to optimize a number of things, but one will be muscle mass.

1:04.8

And if you remember back to the conversation we had with Jeff Moss, gosh, now over a year ago,

1:12.2

he discussed how one of the greatest predictors for all cause mortality was muscle mass and muscle strength.

1:17.9

And so there's definitely something for trying to optimize longevity.

1:22.0

Optimizing muscle mass is one thing that we want to do.

1:24.9

One of the questions I have is we lead in and if you have any thoughts in this, I'd be really curious to hear them. I wonder, do people, are healthier people

1:32.5

more prone to having higher muscle mass? And so is it, is it a selection bias where people who are

1:39.6

healthiest have the highest muscle mass, therefore they have the highest life expectancy? Or is there something about training and adding that muscle mass that actually makes someone

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