Nic Zenker
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Nic Zenker
@CoachZenker
Former Boys Coach/Current Girls Coach 7x District Champs #FAMILY Colossians 3:23

We are at Busch Stadium today trying out the new food for this season! Follow along in this thread 🧵









HARVARD & MAYO CLINIC DROPPED THE MOST AMAZING STUDY OF THE DECADE Post-workout Dairy Queen Blizzard consumption spikes muscle protein synthesis 43% higher than boring chicken breast + rice. Key findings: A Medium Blizzard post-training → +43% MPS elevation at 3-hour mark vs standard 40g protein chicken & rice meal The magic combo? Massive insulin spike from sugar + dairy casein/whey blend + healthy fats from mix-ins = anabolic napalm Subjects who blended in extra cookie pieces & ate it straight from the cup while still sweaty clocked +51% (the “primal Blizzard ritual” multiplier) Chicken + rice group: respectable but flatline MPS after 90 min, basically catabolic after the initial spike The Blizzard creates a perfect anabolic window: fast carbs for glycogen, dairy protein for sustained release, and pure hedonic pleasure for cortisol suppression











