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What a Weight Cut Does to Your Brain
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The fight before the fight
Cutting ten kilos of water in a week is normal in MMA and it should not be. Thiago describes his own worst cut in Thailand, Renata reports on the commissions that are starting to act, and sports physician Dr Camila Rocha explains what dehydration does to the brain's protection and to reaction time. Then a fighter who missed weight talks about the decision to move up.
- How a typical cut is done and what it feels like
- Brain fluid, concussion risk and reaction time
- What the data from hydration testing has shown
- Commissions, early weigh-ins and what is changing
- Moving up a division and letting go of the ego
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Transcript
Welcome back to Clinch and Corner, I am Thiago Nascimento, with Renata Lima. Today's episode is one we have wanted to do since we started, and it is not a fun one, but it matters. Weight cutting. In Thailand I once cut nine kilos in six days and I remember almost nothing from the fight. That is not toughness, that is a brain without enough water around it. Renata has been following the commissions that are finally changing the rules, and we have Dr Camila Rocha, a sports physician, who will explain plainly what dehydration does to your skull's protection and your reaction time. Then a fighter who missed weight last year tells us why he moved up a division and what it cost his ego. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Please listen to this one.
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