The Weekly Picks 026 - Heat Training And EV Innovation

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Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images Every year the Tour de France creates stunning images, like this one of a girl looking at cyclists riding through the Pyrenees.

A 20-second summary of what you can find bellow:

🔚 Closure

🔥 Heat Training Effects

🧬 Stem cell therapy for stroke

🔋 How Lucid is Innovating in the EV sector, while embarrassing the competition

You only need to know what’s happening, you don’t need to know why. Closure is sometimes given, but never summoned

🔥 Heat Training Works

Heat training is a cost-effective alternative to altitude training. The study discovered that training in heat can achieve the benefits of altitude training. Elite cyclists trained in a heat chamber or wore a heat suit. Training for five weeks, five days a week, in the heat resulted in a 2.4 to 2.6% increase in hemoglobin mass - the main benefit of altitude training. Performance also improved compared to a control group. Reducing the heat training to three days per week maintained the hemoglobin bump.

So What?

Heat training shifts the physiological demands of exercise, making your body adapt. Although heat training may not be necessary for most people, it is an effective way to improve performance for those pushing their limits. For the rest of us, this can serve as motivation for training during the summer, even if it's miserable out there.

🧬 Stem cell injection slashes risk of heart attack or stroke by 58%

A stem cell therapy called rexlemestrocel-L has been found to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with heart failure by more than half. The therapy, developed by Mesoblast, contains mesenchymal precursor cells that target inflammation in the heart. While the trial did not meet its primary endpoint of reducing hospitalization for decompensated heart failure, it did meet other pre-specified endpoints, including a 58% reduction in the risk of heart attack or stroke and an improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction. A confirmatory trial is needed to bring this treatment into mainstream use.

🔋 How Lucid is Innovating in the EV sector, while embarrassing the competition

Packaging is undoubtedly one of the most challenging aspects of automotive design. Achieving good packaging requires a holistic approach that combines collaborative design, efficiency, and minimalism. No car better reflects this approach than the Lucid Air. Despite its relatively compact size, it boasts an astonishing amount of cargo and passenger space. Moreover, it holds the distinction of having the lowest energy consumption on the highway of any production car sold today in the United States, with a 140 mpge rating. So, how did they achieve this feat? Watch the video to learn all about it.