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# Alpha memo: cold augment versus attenuate immersion exercise

Hypothesis-level alpha signal; not clinical advice.
## Core signal
Two post-exercise water immersion protocols frame a boundary, not a true contradiction:
- 10.1113/JP270570 frames post-exercise cold water immersion as **attenuating** acute anabolic signalling and long-term muscle adaptations to strength training (negative direction, …