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What Peter Megdal’s World Hour Record Reveals About Aging, Fitness, and Cardiovascular Recovery For decades, human athletic performance was assumed to follow a largely linear decline beginning in early adulthood. Conventional physiological models predicted that the cardiovascular system, pulmonary capacity, and skeletal muscle function would steadily deteriorate as cellular senescence accumulated.
If you’re an endurance athlete, you’ve probably had this moment: your fitness is undeniable—resting heart rate is low, VO₂ is high, your training log looks like a work of art—and then a blood test shows LDL (“bad cholesterol”) is higher than expected. That can feel unfair. It can also trigger a very specific fear: “If I take a statin, will I lose performance?”
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