{"podcast":{"title":"Iron Culture presented by MASS","slug":"iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717","podcast_index_feed_id":951717,"rss_url":"https://ironculture.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://ironculture.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/f/9/3/1f9308c517c6b8e4e55e3c100dce7605/Untitled_design-20.png","author":"The MASS Crew","episode_count":382,"summary":"Iron Culture was started by Eric Helms and Omar Isuf as a means of exploring the world of physical culture and attempting to distill a unified philosophy of lifting and to help listeners find greater meaning from the iron. It's now hosted by Eric Helms and Eric Trexler, who repeatedly beg Omar to return as a guest. Iron Culture focuses on dispensing practical, useful information to the listener, bouncing from history, to philosophy, to contemporary lifting culture issues, to science. The format includes casual conversations between the two hosts on a variety of topics, discussions with a panel of experts and interviews with authoritative figures in the lifting community. Iron Culture is proudly presented by the MASS Research Review.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 369 - New Controversy in LDL Research","slug":"ep-369-new-controversy-in-ldl-research","published_at":"2026-03-18T13:13:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/ep-369-new-controversy-in-ldl-research","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717","url":"https://ironculture.libsyn.com/ep-369-tbd","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ironculture/IC369_final_audio.mp3?dest-id=1065920","summary":"Editorial note: We recorded this episode on March 4. This is an important detail for contextualizing the timeline of events discussed in this episode, as well as our understanding of the matter at the time of recording. Since we recorded this episode, the paper discussed has been officially retracted. We will provide additional updates on this story as they become available. Episode summary: Join Eric Trexler and Eric Helms as they dissect the chaotic rollout of a controversial study on LDL cholesterol and lean mass hyper responders, explore issues in science communication, and debate the integrity of research in the age of social media. If you're in the market for some new lifting gear or apparel, be sure to use code \"MRR10\" at elitefts.com for a 10% discount Chapters 00:00 Intro 09:18 Social media dust-up 17:27 Revisiting the \"Lean Mass Hyper Responder Study\" 23:25 New controversy surrounding the study 33:14 Investigations regarding data integrity 41:43 Historical Context: NUSI and Its Implications 50:55 Steelmanning the argument 55:22 Potential issues with the \"citizen science\" movement 01:01:50 The death of expertise and the future of science communication","meta_description":"Editorial note: We recorded this episode on March 4. This is an important detail for contextualizing the timeline of events discussed in this episode, as…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4725,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/episodes/ep-369-new-controversy-in-ldl-research/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/ep-369-new-controversy-in-ldl-research.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}