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#3: Hacking Fatigue With Tim Noakes (Plus More 4 Hour Body Fun)

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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The Symptoms of Discomfort During Exercise

The symptoms are utterly, completely illusory. They are generated by the brain and they have nothing to do with the state of the body at that time. Anyone whos run enough or exercise enough in competition knows that your symptoms of discomfort rise as a function of how close you are to the finish. So we go even further, and we think that the best athletes are the ones who make the allusion. It interfere less with their running. Less good runners, the symptoms are more illusory, theuh worse, and they therefore slow you down more than the elete. But let's make the point that you can't take a useless biology turn it into a champion by changing

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