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Dr. Michael Israetel

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“There's a lot to this, so we left a lot out. I have a lot more to say about body dysmorphia and how people do relate to their bodies and how they maybe shouldn't or try to weave their thoughts away from various ideas and how maybe they should try to relate to their bodies better. And it's a conversation I love to have. I just don't ever get asked about it super often. So I think that in body dysmorphia in general, in self-esteem as it relates to bodies of guys that grew up too skinny, of girls that grew up too fat, I think a combination of getting the body that you want, soaking in the sun and really being like, I'm the hot girl now. This is really happening and how to relate to your body. There's a plethora of wonderful conversation around that that a time machine I'd go back and interrupt you and just be like let's talk about that”
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“I it wasn't the street anymore, it was just a black empty void. And it became a lucid dream. So I kind of knew a little bit that it was a dream. It was like, oh, I'm going to do cool Dragon Ball Z stuff. You know what Dragon Ball Z is the anime show? And I opened up my hand and I wanted to make a fireball. And I made an energy ball that was like a singularity size, but it was made of people's screams. And then I woke up, and I was like, that was so cool, not victim screams, just viking screams. And I was like, that is the coolest shit. And I had multiple other dreams in my young adult life after successes of women, which were dreams of power. And I was like, God damn, if I can have those dreams every night, it'll be super happy.”
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“I don't know if this is the most meaningful dream. But Jesus Christ, I'm really going to say this. Fine. As I was when I was a young adult, I was starting to experience success with the opposite sex. And I just did not ever experience that when I was younger or already of age but younger. It's just probably like a bit of a hang up, you know, for most people it's kind of like when you're not getting and you feel kind of out of it. And when I started experiencing success with women, My dreams at night changed The following dream has nothing to do with females and sex, but it had to do with power, and it had to do with an ability that you can. I ran out of my childhood home into the street and”
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“I won, I won, I won, I did the thing. Maybe it doesn't work quite that simply, but I think it's good to try because it's a really weird thing to go and be sixty years old and look back on your life and someone's like, so what have you accomplished? You're like, ah, not much. It kind of ain't shit. I've seen you on book covers like, right. Oh, that's right. Okay, so I accomplished a lot, but I don't feel like I have. How dare you rob yourself of being able to swim in that beautiful warm sea of self actualization? I think it's worth it for people to focus when you do good, let yourself bask in that glow. Get your time under the sun.”
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“One thing that I fond maybe is helpful is my wife is similar to me. She is like an insane, super gold driven psychotic person, and we have real trouble taking a step back and telling ourselves like, man, we're doing pretty well. So every now and again, like evenings and weekends, especially weekends, we'll do some sounds super lame, but gratefulness discussion. Depending on who you talked, I guess, to my old childhood bullies. That's name. But, you know, it's really weird to say some of these things out loud to yourself. And there's some resistance, especially early admitting to yourself, like I won.”
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“For sure. And if they're real stubborn, here's my question to you Do you think That childhood experiences build the kind of books that are hard back Lord of the Ranks type of shits, whereas adult experiences that completely contravail a childhood experiences are like a little magazine you'd read on a plane?”
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“Makes you swim in a warm, comfortable sea that heals you in a way that may be therapy can But goddamn there's something to just do in the fucking thing. You take a skinny little kid who's bullied, you make a Mohammed Ali champion of the world, enough title fights later, you became Muhammad Ali. What you gonna do about this? He doesn't even flinch. Come at me. So yeah, it's nice to say, and I think it's true that therapy and self care and all these things can heal the soul. There's something about overcoming and becoming superlative to that thing you used to fear. that might heal your soul to a huge extent. I think maybe I've witnessed that. Again, maybe this is all just make believe it sounds real nice to me.”
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“Doing it all, to getting, I don't know the top or whatever, but to like know one in the right mind with this point be like, this guy is below average intelligence. That would be preposterous to say I've taken the Raven's advanced progressive matrices test and I pegged at scale high. So you get every single question right. And so my IQ is above 160. We don't know how high because they don't do standardized IQ tests above that. You do that enough times. Enough PhD program, the book, enough teaching awards, enough authorships, enough all the stuff, enough millions and app designs and all the stuff and dealing with otherwise really smart people and they walk away being like, fuck, that guy's real smart. Enough of that.”
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“better now because I've taken enough IQ tests and you can only write so many books and be on so many podcasts until people are like you're pretty smart and you got to start believing it unless you're totally irrational at some point that sinks in so one thing I will say is there are ways of dealing with demons and insufficiencies that you've developed through your childhood some of them are just having a real deep personal journey in your own head consistently reinforcing good attitudes not reinforcing the bad ones otherwise are talking to friends family other ones are therapy which is excellent for this but I got to tell you Stephen I'm not sure if this is true but there's got to be something proving the opposite is true”
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“To be at least competent at school, and up until I was fourteen I was like incontention for being the worst student at any single school I intended at any single time in the bittersweet element was my dad is a PhD in mathematical modeling of atmospheric physical phenomena and my mom was a translator of the Russian English to Russian and got a master's degree in social work in our second language in America a few years after we got in. That's a legacy I'm dealing with and like I can't do math problems three grades younger than the kids I got held back in school a grade and so I took that not so well and so later because I was medicated for attention deficit it was revelatory experience as I came up and sort of grew into the idea that I was actually fairly intelligent I had something to prove and it's a getting”
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“Probably if I had to write that fake backstory arc explaining my life, the bullying thing is like kind of a little bit minor. I have a really gnarly story about having really severe attention deficit disorder when I was younger, while at the same time growing up in an Ashkenazi Jewish family, for Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrants to the US, you were either good at school or you were worthless. And it's not just that my parents thought that. I didn't really think that at a deep level. They did believe it at a surface level. I thought that. You can't make fun of someone for being fat if they're cool with being fat. Like, yeah, I'm fucking big. Hell yeah. And you're like, it didn't work. But if they believe that being fat is terrible, you can be like, hey, how much do you weigh? That's it. Everything changes. So for me, I believed I had a destiny.”
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“Being more and more confident and caring less about what people think. Like, I wouldn't have said this on camera. There's like millions of people probably listening right now. I wouldn't have said these things about myself. It sounds icky. Oh, I've never told this bullying story to anyone but a few people. I was like, when you brought it up, like, tell me about when you were bullied. In my head, I was like, holy shit, all right. This is where this goes. Well, I just think it's everyone I've met. It's not, you're not, you're the same as everyone I've met in that regard.”
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“That's where I go, okay, there's something different in my wiring. It's still an element, this sort of proving my worth to myself or, you know, proving to the kids back on the playground that they should respect me in some way or whatever. And it's complicated. And I say this not because it makes me sound great because it certainly doesn't. I just say it because I really believe that more honest I can be with myself, the closer I can get to everything that I want. Oh, sure. You know, like the closer I can get to holding the steering wheel, not being dragged. With a rope at the back of a car. I'm trying to hold this steering wheel in my life, and that starts with an honest self-awareness and one that honestly has only come from.”
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“I'm very comfortable with who I am. I think I have somewhat of an accurate reflection of who I am to some degree, but then I also, I contrast that with the fact that why am I still just obsessively driving towards these ever bigger goals in a way that's really, really atypical, like not the average person, you know? And why does it matter so much to me?”
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“As being material success. It was the thing that I lied, cheated, and stole to try and achieve. And it's been my orientation for my whole life. I think deep within me is this story that success and material success and all those things make me enough. And I didn't feel like inside, yeah. And I didn't feel like I was enough. And as much as I'm aware of that now, it doesn't mean that it's going to stop. It so it didn't feel like you're enough. Well, it's interesting because if you ask me, do I feel like I'm enough? I'd say yes.”
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“As I often say, are sometimes driven and they're dragged, and it's hard to tell the difference, whether something is drive or whether it's like you're being dragged. Compulsion. Like compulsion that you just can't explain because of maybe a trauma or an experience you went through or maybe the household you grew up in. I think I'm leaning more now towards the dragged side of things in most areas of my life, especially where I exhibit atypical behavior like what? Like the fact that I work like seven days a week and I can just, and I've always been absolutely obsessed with like achievement and success. So why do you think that is? Because I think I grew up in a context where the thing that invalidated me was that like we were the poor family that didn't have things and I was black in an all-white area. And I was just full of shame growing up. And I think I saw that medicine to the shame.”
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“Probably can I guarantee his safety if he brings it up? No, if he watches this and hits me up and goes Ha, I got you, little bitch. If I see him in real life? I might take something from him. Medical science can't give him back within the next five or ten years. What a terrible idea I'd go to jail. I have a lot of really good things going for me. It would be wrong in every single way. It wouldn't even be ethical, because he never beat the crap out of me or anything like that. It was that like he brutalized me. Oh my God, like, I'm going to cripple someone over some bullshit childhood. See if he was ten. The gravity of how deeply it feels to me even right now at age forty is like, man, yeah, that shit definitely meant something. It's interesting because I think for the first, I'm 31 now. So I think for the first 27 years of my life, if you'd asked me why I do what I do, I would have in hindsight probably told you a story that sounds a little bit heroic. I have this drive and have this motivation and I had this goal and I went after it and it was all like self-agency and all that stuff. But the more and more I've learned about I think psychology generally and how humans are.”
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“How you could be pushed to do that. Now in their particular case, I don't even know how they were pushed or whatever, but enough bullying will make you consider doing terrible things to regain your honor. And so that was probably like the most pretty. I was bullied in other situations. Again, like I might have been bullied three or four times my whole life, but it just did not sit well with me at all. For a long time it changed how I expressed myself to the world. And even right now as I talk to you, I'm getting pretty emotional. I'll say that if I see that guy again in real life, if he's even around I have a brown belt jijutsu now. I'm almost certainly bigger and stronger than him Is he safe around me?”
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“Reminded me that I need to keep my head down, and otherwise I get real scared, and I didn't want to be scared. And so that's how that worked. It wasn't like he got something like your shit is racial, that's deep, bro. My shit's not deep at all. It's just two kids, and one of them punked it out. I was just the wrong person for that to happen to. And I remember fantasizing when I was in like sixth grade, I think, like a year later. Like, wouldn't it be great if I brought a baseball bat to school and just broke his legs and just kept hitting his legs to where he'd never walk right ever again because he wronged me that bad? I felt that deep and true. I'm going to keep the statement as contextual as I can, with full understanding of respect for the gravity of what I'm saying. When the Columbine people did what they did, I thought it was egregious and terrible. I also understood.”
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“And then he got really upset about that. And he kind of stood over me. And he was like, like, you know, you little this and that. Like, you did this to me, like, I'm going to F you up and all this other stuff. And that's when that mechanism switched. When he did that to me, my whole perspective on the world changed for years. I was like a confident, happy kid. And then after that, for four or five years, maybe longer, all of my confidence drained out. I became introverted. I am not naturally introverted. That his presence alone”
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“This is getting deep, hu I have a few incidents One probably stands out the most so is a kid named Darren, and he was black? Almost certainly fatherless? Praetor naturally physically developed for his age he was ten, so was I. We were just wrestling. I wrestled with everyone He beat me in wrestling. He was the only person I believed to beat me in wrestling my whole childhood. Like he was like a 14 year old kid in great shape, and I was a 10 year old kid. He beat me in wrestling, and that was cordial because they get this wrestling. But he had braces, I think, and he cut himself while wrestling with me and he was bleeding out of his mouth.”
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“I felt scared, and I felt like I wasn't brave enough to stand up for myself. Later I began standing up for myself, and that felt very nice. But it felt like I was out of control in a part of my brain that I didn't consent to made me frown and dipped my head down for me. It was almost like musculature in my neck just deactivated. It's an ancestral mechanism that everyone has. Kids all the way up through teenage and adulthood sort themselves male children into dominance hierarchies. It's just the dominance hierarchy sorting itself. And someone confronted me and I automatically sorted myself beneath them. I felt beneath someone. I felt weaker, more inferior, less apt, less capable, less confident, less strong, and I didn't even have consent to it. It's not something I chose. I was like, this kid will beat me.”
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“End of elementary school all the way through the beginning of high school I was bullied honestly like literally a few times I think I was just the wrong person to bully because that very temporary state of disenfranchisement and powerlessness I'm never going to be bullied again, to put it simply. I wish I was logical enough that when, like, if I was getting robbed by someone at knife point, or not even knife point, just like just a guy, try to be like, hey man, get out of my way. No. Said, get out of my way. I'm going to die here before I move out of way. You're going to treat me with respect, or one of us is either going to jail or the morgue or the hospital. It's a terrible thing to think it's stupid beyond belief just be like sir, my apologies, please keep going but”
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“I have a few ideas. I'll caveat this idea with the following. Retrospective analysis of why you do things is almost always grotesquely flawed. Most of why we do things is a combination of variables we don't understand in genetics. And so like the whole life story arc, well, it all started on a t-shirt in the third grade. Like, that's bullshit. That's a backwards justification you made up. The following statements are backwards justifications I'm making up as Here's a fun story, this will be fun. When I was small, young, my dad would wrestle with me a lot. And he would always let me win in the end. He's great. He's a great person. And he would always tell me that I was strong and capable. And then in like”
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“As simple as that biology, and I'm at the extreme end of masculinity brainwise to begin with. And so you see a movie where the hulk rips off an airplane wing and throws it. Some people be like, whoa, some people are like, I hate this movie. And some people are like, oh my God, I want to just be the movie. that whole thing. I want that, it just feels good”
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“And a lot of the people who are in the industry at the time, this is not as true anymore, now drug free bodybuilding and fitness is exploding, which is a beautiful, wonderful thing. But back when Nick and I came up to be relevant in the fitness industry, you sort of had to be like super jacked and super, super lean. It's nothing we were going to accomplish drug free. So we were like, this is where the road leads to being taken seriously as a thinker in the space. Let's do it. Another thing is. I really like being, or at least for a long time liked being enormous and ripped. Just like a like you ever see how a four year old looks at like a garbage truck or a tank or an airplane?”
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“Good question Recently I've taken Probably several year back seat away from competitive bodybuilding. Precisely because I have a lot of really good things going on in my life, and I'm going to need my brain and my more fluid civility to deal with them best. And for a couple of other reasons. So right now is an interesting time to ask me why I do it because I'm kind of like winding that down big time. But the real reason is one of the reasons that I started steroids is I was drug free for a long time and I was starting to become a kind of an educator in fitness and a promulgator of opinion.”
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“I just want to hug everyone in the world. Right now I'm on not so high levels of steroids. I'm just saying I make jokes with every all-star conversation with random people in the street. No problem. And so when these thoughts consistently enter my mind on higher doses, I'm just like, And I'm never like, I should be feeling like this. I'm like, this is really annoying and really terrible.”
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“Steroids, the honor culture comes from maleness. It comes from testosterone. And other brain structures, of course. But the more testosterone and steroids are all testosterone-like molecules. If you have 10 times the testosterone-like action affecting your brain, your proclivity to falling into honor culture or like behavioral patterns and thought patterns increases to an enormous extent. You tend to take things that are not meant in any poor way as affronts. If they're actually meant as affronts, you tend to catastrophize them in your head. And like this is the thing. Like, I'll be brushing my teeth in the morning, in the shower, and like thinking about people in my life that have wronged me. I've never been wrong in any real serious way. And I'll just be like those of uncontrollable fantasies of rage and aggression and righteous anger and revenge. I hate that as a philosophical minded person.”
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“Most people probably don't have this severity, but. I'll read a comment on social media. Directed at me, I guess, about me. And it's from like, you know, nameless, faceless profile Can I begin to fantasize about what it would be like and how much more Sublime pleasure I would receive. hurting that person at a deep physical and emotional level. Badly, hurting them in such a way that they're never going to walk right again and they're always going to remember me and how they dared to cross me. Do you know what honor culture is? The idea that, like, in the hood, you step on someone's, a gang member's Nikes and he just blasts you away and goes to jail for 20 years. Over what?”
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“Decrease in fluid intelligence, for sure. Radical increases in anxiety or radical increases in aggression. I pride myself on never losing my cool. I've never screamed at anyone. I've never gotten physical to anyone. But the ideas in my head that tell me to do things tell me to do unspeakable things. They're unspeak I'd have to speak them. You really want to know? I'm also fucking weird, so just remember that”
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“So erectile dysfunction risk goes up a lot. That's a real big problem because you want it, but it's not around for the picking there. So there's all that kind of stuff plays a huge role. And a lot of the other side effects are increases in anxiety, increases in aggression, increases in disagreeableness and probability of confrontation. Steroids have been shown decently well. This isn't super confirmed to at least approximately why you're taking them. Substantially reduce your fluid intelligence. And they may in the long term reduce your overall intelligence, but it seems that if you stop taking them, you get most, if not all of that back, but maybe not all of it. So they do make you dumber as a general heuristic. That's probably true.”
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“Steroids have never been shown to change the size of your willy. There is no mechanism by which really they can do that. So that's not a problem. But steroids, depending on the steroids you take, depending on your own individual biology, depending on the ancillary drugs that you take along with it, steroids can either have no real effect on your libido, have a profoundly upregulating effect on libido where like hunger like you would not believe. And for other people, you get an increase in libido, but some steroids, for example, decadurabolin in some people, a type of steroid, radically escalates your libido. You turn in just as hungry, and at the same time gives you, in many cases, dependable inability to sustain an erection.”
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“Something like half of all people will experience testicular shrinkage while using steroids. Your boy got lucky, my shit's all the same size. A lot of people roughly half will experience a decrease in ejaculate volume and a profound decrease in fertility. That does not mean you're not infertile. I know many people, I know many people's children that were fathered when the baby.”
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“Supposed to reach if you just let nature do the thing, so when teenagers take steroids, this almost always categorically a super, super terrible idea. Also, they're not intelligent enough yet. Some teenagers are very smart. They're not wise enough yet. To be able to make that trade-off appropriately. And so that's a huge sort of different topic. But the psychological side effects are a lot of times the things that The approximately most displeasing part of taking stare. And some people like them. They're also mixed back.”
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“Over the longer term, you get a substantially increased risk of heart disease. If you're smart you take blood pressure drugs to counteract the blood pressure increase. If you're dumb, you take it on the chin and you have a high probability much higher of kidney failure later in your life and losing your limbs and your vision or all that good stuff that comes with that. There is an increased probability or severity of cancer. Steroids increase the probability of damn near every disease kind of central systemic disease that you can have. But that usually happens much later. And so while you're on them, you deal with the cosmetic side effects, increased probability of balding, and the psychological side effects, which are highly unpleasant. I can get into in a bit. If you're a teenager, there's an entire class of steroids that close your growth plates early. So if you're under the age of definitely 22 as a male and you take steroids, there's a very good chance you will never reach the adult height you were.”
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“That no one's talking about, so there's cosmetic downsides. You get an increase in body hair growth. This is especially profounder for female, but if you're a male, that's a thing. I have hair that grows on my ears, I have hair that grows on the outside of my nose, I have to shave the front of my nose. Now, a lot of that's just being a Russian Jew and his hair just grows out of our eyeballs, but shit happens. You get pimples, you get stuff like that.”
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“If you have the same workout and you take plenty of steroids, you can literally double your muscle gain from that workout. If you understand that steroids also allow you to recover faster and better and more completely, you can take your workout and magnify it in more sets, etc. More sessions per week. And then you would grow like two and a half times as much muscle.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Visually after a few months he would be like, oh wow, okay, this is some other shit. After a week or two, you'd be like, I don't know. My workouts feel pretty good. Psychologically, if you're especially introspective and perceptive and you're sensitive to the psychological side effects, which I'm greatly sensitive to, I notice in 30 minutes of taking steroids.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can take steroids orally through pills, or you can inject it into muscle. So usually you would inject it into your quads. A lot of people do their shoulders and some people, if they're flexible enough, do their glutes.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know this because I used to not take steroids. And when I wasn't taking steroids, I weighed about a body fat similar to this. I would have to weigh probably one hundred eighty to one hundred ninety pounds more like one hundred eighty and this kind of body fat level. I currently weigh two hundred sixteen pounds because I'm on a moderate amount of steroids a few weeks ago, actually earlier last week I was on higher amounts of steroids and with the same level of body fat I weighed two hundred twenty seven pounds. So we're talking about thirty, forty pounds of muscle tissue difference between steroids and not steroids.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you talk to me, like you are now for just several hours at a time, let's say we're sitting on a plane together and you're like, I'm just a guy who's trying to get like a little bit more this one than that. What supplements do I need to take is the wrong time to ask that. The time to ask that is like, I want to take a run at a natural bodybuilding show. What supplements do I need? Okay, then they pay some dividends that are worth noting, but supplements are just not in the conversation for important things that health conscious people should have even in their top ten of important things they need to do. The top 10 important things are like getting adequate sleep, managing your stress really well, consistently lifting weights, consistently doing a high level of physical activity.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I used to load creatine. That's basically like a corporate scam that's just trying to get you to consume more creatine. If you load your creatine, which is like taking 20 grams per day for a few days, you get to intramuscular creatine stores that are optimal, like in four or five days. If you don't load creatine, you get there in like seven to ten days. Because you're taking creatine either for months or for life, it's just a moot point. So creatine loading is a gigantic waste of time in almost every case. So creatine works. Whey protein, casein protein can be an excellent way to conveniently get protein. So they're more like foods rather than supplements. Those are totally cool, but not mandatory.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Creatine works to build muscle. It's got awesome cognitive benefits. It's just healthy for you and it's great. So five grams per day for most people of creatine monohydrate. Super awesome.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean Creatine will not help with weight loss. And for most people it'll temporarily gain you about two kilos of body weight because it attracts body water into the muscle. It's a cool look because I'm on creatine right now, can you? So creatine doesn't help you lose weight in any meaningful extent. So I'm aware of no over-the-counter supplements that simultaneously help you burn fat and gain muscle. There are supplements that are not over the contra that do that quite well.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That cardio reliably, over the long term, burns lots of weight off, and it is not true to say that gaining lots of muscle burns lots of weight off. What is really, really critical is, do you have a well-controlled nutritious diet? And do you have an average, moderate to high level of daily physical activity, dancing and swimming and running and having fun and chasing your kids if you're on the higher end of activity? Not psychotically high to where you get super tired, just not being a total like slouch, and making sure you're aware of your body or your diet, that's what really pays these massive dividends and long-term weight control. It's not like if I put on a ton of muscle, that's great for everything else. It makes you super healthy. It makes you look really awesome. It gives you the ability to like, I don't know, like do real world stuff, defend yourself, things like that. That's what muscle is there for. It's not the greatest calorie sink in the world. I wish it was. I'd beat cheeseburger right now.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would be burning a teeny bit more fat or more calories per day because of my higher muscle mass, but it's mostly my absolutely higher weight. So for example, the people in the world that burn the most calories and need the most calories to sustain their body weight are the fattest people in the world, that like lady that weighs eight hundred, nine hundred, a thousand pounds. Like just to keep her the same size, it's 15,000 calories a day. And if it was all muscle and no fat, somehow she was a thousand pounds of muscle, which should be sweet to look at, she would be burning like maybe sixteen thousand calories per day instead of fifteen. And probably even that's an exaggeration. Muscle mass doesn't help you burn tons of calories. That's not what it's there for. It is incredibly good for your health. It is incredibly good for how you look. Those things by itself make muscle mass an awesome thing to do, but it is neither true to say”
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“Through junk food, the total calorie sink deficit they can make for themselves is now in the hundreds of calories per day. Now you're losing a pound of fat every week, now you're having big results.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh yeah, that's huge, and some people do have a hunger response, but what you put in your body after that could be really healthy stuff that doesn't have a ton of calories is really filling. Or it could be like, we're done running, pizza and beer, and then that's really bad news. But real quick, so let's say you're burning 600 calories extra per week by running two miles at a time or whatever or whatever. You run an extra four miles per week, right? Six hundred calories per week. What is that? Well, to burn a pound of body fat, you need to get thirty five hundred calories per week out of your diet or do three thousand five hundred extra calories of activity per week. Six hundred's a drop in the bucket to that you'll never notice. I mean, yeah, after a year, you'll lose like two or three pounds or five pounds or whatever. Nobody thinks in terms like that. But if they were to simply alter their diet and keep training, to keep the calorie burn at a moderate to high level, but take food out of their diet, especially.”
2024-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Muscle Building Expert: “Creatine Loading Is a Waste Of Time!”, They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Typically exercise does not dependably increase your hunger on most people. So depending on the context in the individual, it's not a dependable thing to say that doing more exercise necessarily makes you more hungry, which is kind of cool because usually you're not really any more hungry. And if you stick consistently exercise, but you control your diet, you're good to go. However,”
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