Calories Don't Matter, Hormones Do

[@ffdragis]

Dr Mike thanks for making all of your content so educational and entertaining. I just got down to 299! started somewhere over 470+ The more I learn about our metabolic system the easier it gets to diet because you understand what's actually happening when you shove all these goddamn calories in your mouth.

[@bstathatos1]

Great job! Keep it up!

[@DavidDavis311]

That’s awesome man!

[@bobboberson6664]

Hell yeah bro!!! Get after it!

[@bcraiders11]

Damn dude thats amazing. Keep that shit up.

[@notashton.]

Slay king

[@idealsAREisomorphic]

Honestly I am ready to trust my life to a guy with a head like that.

[@Lpj4]

😂 that’s bc his freaking upper body is massive.

[@fotis3v480]

Meathead head, aspiring to get one someday.

[@AlexanderBlocker]

Meh, needs a beard for complete trust

[@hbald2]

Gentlemen your hilarity is to be saluted!!!

[@warrenstrife4818]

that big brain bustin out

[@oliviafagin293]

Keep hormones balanced when dieting: 11:58 ~Sleep. ~Eat a balance of fats/carbs/fiber/protein. ~Don't diet for too long (6 weeks - repeat). ~Stay active throughout the day/get steps in. ~Maintain a healthy body fat %. ~Skip the hormone boosting/suppressing pills.

[@mianashhad9802]

Next fitness myth: "I do not want to get too bulky so I won't lift heavy weights" "I'll use light weights to tone my muscles"

[@suhwateezea.214]

That's truth bro

[@welennelew9866]

@@suhwateezea.214 It depends on what is your "heavy" weights bro If you are like those girls that say those words but all they lift is 10lbs dumbbell then you are wrong If one could get too bulky by lifting 10lbs dumbbell, bodybuilder wouldn't need to be lifting several hundreds of pounds of weight anymore

[@suhwateezea.214]

@@welennelew9866 hi

[@Ukri1]

Because of this excuse most people in the gym look like they don't even train

[@Junitaco]

Every woman I've ever dated lol

[@Madchris8828]

This video is great timing. Stuck at home sick and watching Dr. Mike. At least one part of that sentence is good.

[@ethanheise1743]

I don't know how I found this channel but I love this video format. there is a lot of good evidence based information to be learned.

[@davidec.4021]

You didn’t find doctor Mike. Doctor Mike found you

[@strikefirststrikehard780]

I am very grateful for actual scientists like Dr mike when they take on the pseudo science of Instagram/KZbin fitness

[@LTPottenger]

You should post a transformation video where you cut 140 lbs by doing nothing but counting calories. Oh wait, you can't, because you were lying about that lol

[@strikefirststrikehard780]

@@LTPottenger ok dude your right I didn’t lose any weight fasting is magic and your the smartest guy around.

[@andrewluk4327]

We're seeing less and less of Mike's laptop on screen as time goes on. Now it's just the mouse. Progressive overload, I like it.

[@johnnys3501]

How can I replace Alexa with Mike's bro voice?

[@m3morizes]

I feel a serious kind of brotherly love for such wholesome men like Dr. Mike.

[@JohnPascavageFishing]

I always love when people say “oh if you cut calories, you’ll loose weight for a little bit but your metabolism will compensate to match”. Usually someone trying to sell me on some keto/ IF diet. Riight. So eating at a deficit won’t work, but if I do their way, my body will somehow be like “it’s okay guys, he’s doing IF, it doesn’t count?”

[@xavierayayaell546]

Always gotta keep your body guessing 😂

[@s.a.6082]

That's what kills me with the hormones IF camp. Like why do you think IF works? Because you're restricting your calories, you ding dong.

[@jakeboyyer]

The new setup without a laptop makes me feel like I’m in Dr. Mike’s computer looking back at him

[@mageyeah7763]

Imagine if instead of shipping food to the ISS, we could just give astronauts hormone pills.

[@XXLRebel]

And instead of food packages we just send some hormone pills to Africa. World hunger solved😃

[@alosplanetas]

NASA employee here... you made me LOL!

[@NickD25]

There's one anecdotal that I would love to hear commented about. My gf was hypothyroid but "treated" with T4. Still had symptoms but TSH was fine. Long story short she was overweight and I put her for a week on a 1000 calorie a day diet and she barely lost weight! And I was really monitoring it. Finally found an endo willing to prescribe T3 and she started shedding weight like crazy and never had hypo symptoms afterwards. Can a thyroid problem (a real one) can be this detrimental to the metabolism?

[@paavoilves5416]

This is an interesting one. I'll stay to see if RP answers!

[@Maestro-gh2ei]

Fascinating stuff

[@RenaissancePeriodization]

Absolutely it can. That being said, the hormones result in a lowered calorie burn, and that's the fundamental reason why weight loss can be very slow in a poor hormonal environment. That being said, if you kept her on that very low cal diet for longer (don't, it sucks), she WOULD have lost weight, albeit a bit less than with hormone therapy. - Dr. Mike

[@Christian-ki5js]

Its mathematically impossible to see a change in weight in 1 week

[@fredwells7403]

A week just isn't long enough to see a change in the weight trend. She DID lose bodily tissue during that week, probably around a pound. You just didn't see it on the scale cause other factors causes her to be heavier (water retention, glycogen, etc). On the other than, thyroid issues really fuck with your caloric expenditure so instead of having a normal 2000-3000kcal expenditure, maybe hers was 1500kcal.

[@Leonard89008]

Fitness Myth: Hypertrophy and Strength are totally unrelated- if you want to be strong never go above 5 Reps

[@karate-kampela2950]

Good suggestion since this is such a stupid claim.

[@GabrielSilva-xj4rm]

Or the opposite one: "if you want to be big, never go below 5 reps"

[@oguzhanay3767]

@@GabrielSilva-xj4rm i mean that is kinda true tho?

[@M_is_lost]

Well to be honest, this is literally what I used to do, I can do more than 5 reps?? No thanks I'm going heavier. ANYTHING that I would be able to do above 5 reps I would just stop and pick a weight where I could do no more than 5, I wouldn't even do more than 5 reps on warm up weight, because that shit was literally to tiring for me. So.. I'm glad I'm learning now!

[@zelenisok]

can be unrelated. if for years you only do 3x3 and progress the weight you will become hella strong but gain almost no mass.. on the other hand you can make size gains for more than a year without increasing the weight, dr mike even gave an example of a program for that in one podcast..

[@MrSunnyBhoy]

Amazing stuff, makes perfect sense. Gregg Ducette would be screaming his ass off praising u as he always says caleries in vs caleries out. I used to think my hormones were the reason I stored more fat. There is some truth to that Doc.

[@thomase8850]

is insulin sensitivity related to emotional sensitivity? cus i’m falling in love with this series

[@xX_dash_Xx]

unarguably the best "gym bro" voice on the internet

[@RobeCobe]

2:31 Yemen, Somalia, and Ethiopia all currently have famines and almost a third of the global population is experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity, what with the whole pandemic thing. Relevant? Not really, but I think folks should at least be aware.

[@dylanmann9917]

I’d love a parody video and how to gain fat optimally

[@qwertziop0]

thats actually a really good idea for what not to do, also may help recovering anorexic patients that are "over it" mentally but now need to adjust their actions to a new mindset +1 for that idea

[@dylanmann9917]

@@qwertziop0 exactly we almost always learn more from discovering what not to do

[@lightningq61]

I like that lol, optimization of meal frequency vs volume, low fiber and only required protein, slight sleep deprivation, minimal stims...would be great to see what all Mike could come up with

[@noahgearhart4098]

Next fitness myth: Greg Doucette is a good content creator

[@XXLRebel]

Elaborate because you're clearly pissed off about something he said

[@sheadoherty7434]

@@XXLRebel maingaining, poor programming advice, "If you don't have abs your fat" (all those insecure skinny kids watching are screwed), telling skinny kids that test is a good supplement, claiming turk helped him put on a few pounds of muscle in a short span of time, trying to censor GVS and then back tracking when called out. Just a few things.

[@jacksonblack2776]

Greg Douchette

[@IMTHISBABY]

Dr. Mike for president! Thanks for dispelling these myths. I have much to learn, it seems!!!

[@happpyplant]

Dear Sir, I cannot thank you enough for all the high quality information you share with us on this channel. I wish I found it eariler. Dr Mike=instant like.

[@gribbler1695]

Let it be known that he is spouting nonsense (see Bart Kay).

[@wrestle4life234]

I’ve read somewhere, possibly Guyton & Hall’s Medical Physiology edition ?? that Cortisol preferentially selects soluble proteins in muscle as opposed to the structural muscle. Which makes sense - if you need to mobilize amino acids for energy, you would want to break down your excess enzymes first, then go after dismantling your structural proteins. Just a nice tip for everyone who is nervous about Cortisol

[@trevorfilipiak1247]

I really like the way this guy speaks and explains things

[@highvalue1195]

The little jokes in these videos 💀 😂😂 I love RP science! Great information ❤

[@serban2139]

I think when people say that insulin makes you hungry at maintenance or hypercaloric diet is because they compare to a same caloric number on a keto diet(low insulin) and that's been true to my experience. 3k calories on keto makes me full, 3k with 60% let's say carbs doesn't satisfy me. I'm definitely missing on something here, but that's just how it was for me. EDIT: it's true for a deficit as well. Yea, I can keep my carbs high and cut 500 calories from maintenance, but I'm way hungrier that way than if I did keto. I have a "feeling"(therefore I could be wrong) that the rate of fat loss is same-ish, but I'm damn sure I don't feel like starving on a keto compared to high carb. I mean at the end of the day with my discipline and consistency I can do whatever to get me to my goals, but higher carb definitely wasn't the most pleseant experience when cutting. That being said, that's my experience at a higher percentage of bodyfat say 15%-20%. Under 15% a higher carb diet is just the same if not better than keto EVEN when in a deficit. Funny how complex things can get on so many variables..welp.

[@vicvin64]

Keto advocates often conflate carbs with hyperpalatable food. Or they trope 'I can't eat carbs cuz the glucose surge insulin crash makes me hungry' yadayada. Bodybuilders have been using bland hyperUNpalatable foods forever because they specifically reduce hunger and increase satiety. Eat 3k calories of plain boiled potatoes I dare you.

[@serban2139]

@@vicvin64 Yea, I get that now :)

[@ActivateTrueHealth]

The calories in and calories out theory is true, BUT what determines our calories out (how many calories we metabolize for energy) is a highly complex system that depends on things such as hormone levels and balance, mitochondrial function, vitamin/minerals/fat/protein status, toxicity, microbiome balance, medications, supplements, body fat level, etc etc but near the top of this list is hormone levels and balance. Specifically cortisol and thyroid hormone, but things like estrogen and testosterone play a role as well.

[@hastyscorpion]

Probably should have watched the video before commenting…..

[@matthewbgordon]

Love these informative videos sprinkled in with Dr. Mike's humor...thank you.

[@PedroTomé1]

Talk about ecdysterone and turkesterone, plz Mike! Thinking about taking these 2 supps. Also, talk about testosterol 250, another natural steroid compound.

[@JoshBenware]

He already did a vid on turk. He basically said, "who knows? Not enough evidence yet".

[@PedroTomé1]

@@JoshBenware Oh, ok I'll search it. Thanks

[@domepiece11]

Bottom line is none of that stuff is truly regulated. Supplements are probably regulated less than food. I would be wary of new supplements that aren’t studied. If anything, just take creatine, which has been highly studied for safety and effectiveness over decades.

[@sfarsitulumi]

Natural test boosters and other pills don't work. They are all hype and marketing. If you want to spend a lot of money forever on a supplement that might increase your bench by 5lbs if you keep taking it forever, sure go ahead

[@Niko-pt9li]

Its just a waste of money, objectively its not even researched to a great extent except on some rats so there is no point on going on it.

[@stophi2581]

it´s like talking about gravity and some people say: "but birds fly ! they don´t fall down !".

[@AdenCao20]

Looking forward to this weeks fitness myths!

[@luizappel7802]

Switchin slides on the thumbwheel = built different Oh, great delts btw, even greater content.

[@lucazzane]

Loving this new series

[@peetos-chan2835]

You're my hero, man.

[@kristinrigby8952]

I do a high protein keto diet and have had tremendous success. Interesting video. I think both hormones and calories matter. I track calories and macros. Thanks Dr Mike!

[@hata6290]

You are majorly lowering your testosterone

[@loganwolv3393]

@@hata6290 No he dosen't. Yeah i've seen biolayne talking about specifically low carb high protein diets (so it didin't apply to low carb moderate protein) slightly reduces your testosterone but it's nothing major, you're not losing gains.

[@rjevans2728]

RANDLE CYCLE, SMOOTH BRAINS.

[@janscholochua9800]

damn your chair looks like you about to take a nap 😂

[@diseofisa2426]

I wish you were around when I started 30 years ago! You are the real deal! Great clear factional information! Keep up the great work!!!😀😀😀

[@BC-hu6yq]

Dr Mike, after seeing the thumbnail and title, I was genuinely worried that you were somehow someone who got past my BS-meter. But when you immediately went into the thermodynamics argument, I knew everything was gonna be alright. Your hormones might affect your ability to get in a calories deficit/surplus, but that deficit/surplus is still necessary for weight loss/gain.

[@hata6290]

YES

[@DaoTau]

Dieting for 6 months, now I know why I am at a plateau I will stop for 6 weeks and go on a dieet again for 12 weeks after that. Ty for the info I going to try 3000 kcal per day, like many calculators recommend. I am 180cm age 33 91kg atm, weight training 3-4 times a week and 10.000 steps a day. Lost 20 kilo’s but am plateauing for months now.

[@jaz_ok]

I didn't listen to all of this , though , if you ate at a deficit and it was 80% carbs , you'll loose weight , mainly muscle and become skinny fat . On the other hand , you ate 80% protien , you'll loose weight, more fat and retain much more muscle . As always , the truth is actually some of both arguments , one point of view without the other is never the truth .

[@mackbach8265]

This isn’t true because carbs are protein sparring and a diet higher in carbs can get away with lower protein. At the end of the day you loose fat by a caloric deficit

[@jaz_ok]

@@mackbach8265 ok , run the experiment for yourself for 6mnths , eat 80 % carbs in a deficit , see what happens to you . Then next 6 mths run it in a surplus and see what happens to you . Carbs being protien sparing means nothing . Protien is protien sparing and anabolic , building lean tissue . Carbs do not build lean tissue , carbs get broken down for energy , that is all

[@jaz_ok]

@@mackbach8265 Good luck with that

[@fitnessspecifix5435]

@@jaz_ok @mack bach There is a ceiling on how much protein can be used to build muscle. Before your body starts to build muscle first your glycogen levels have to be full/restored after workout. Carbs fill up your glycogen levels and leaves protein to build muscles (allows you to not consume too much protein) - why would you use protein for glycogen replenishment?????

[@jaz_ok]

@@fitnessspecifix5435 The two leading experts on protein Donal Layman and Stu Phillips , now agree that carbs are not at all needed to build muscle , carbs have nothing to do with building muscle and are not required after a workout for the muscle building process . Protein is required only . Protein works with fats and is all that is required , protein must come with fats . You can eat carbs if you want for glycogen replenishment but at the same time GNG is always occurring so its not really needed . This is a personal thing . If you are burning up glycogen faster that GNG is occurring then you might eat carbs or if you like running on carbs specifically . There is no such thing as ingesting only 30 g protein per meal , that was only believed because all research was done with whey protein . They now agree , research has not been done on people who eat food ,,, steak ,, and eat 100 g , 200g , 300 g protein per meal and also only eat few meals per day . We don't know and its silly to assume the muscle building process under these conditions stops after a few hours . There are athletes doing this and are strong and build muscle . Everything we thought we knew about protein is currently being rewritten .

[@aaronbryant6591]

Hey mike I’d like if you could possibly do a video for people with 100lbs to lose? I was 310lbs at the start of October and I’m currently down to 270 as of 1/29. I’d like to get to about 180-190 as fast as possible but I also know you advise against rapid fat loss for the rebounding effect most people have. I have no intentions on rebounding and have a massive amount of will power. I would greatly appreciate a video addressing people in my position. Thanks for the great content regardless!

[@hata6290]

Honestly you can do it anyway you want. If you wanna do it fast then do it fast, cut the calories or even fast, but make sure to keep resistance training to minimize muscle loss

[@andrewscott5059]

Nobody intends to rebound. The point is that it's such a strong stimulus that nearly everybody who attempts to lose down to their goal weight in one go has a pretty serious rebound. I'm sure that every single person who wants to change their life and for the better wants to stay that new healthy way as long as possible. Even assuming you do have the infinite willpower you suggest you have, a large influencer making a video whose advice would lead to countless failed weight loss attempts by those with less iron will (99% of the population), is probably a bad idea. If you do want to lose weight real fast, every 12 weeks of so just do a quick one month maintenance phase, trying to identify your equilibrium calorie consumption at the new weight before then continuing on to another 12 week cut. There are huge benefits to this, particularly hormonally (as mentioned in the video) and mentally, but it also lets you better understand what maintenance at a new weight might look like. Then when you do your final 12 week cut and get down to your dream weight, you already know exactly what to do afterwards to maintain it and keep the weight off.

[@aaronbryant6591]

@@andrewscott5059 happy to say since this comment, I’ve lost 100lbs and have kept it off for a number of months. Now to just lose this last 30 or so and get ripped this year 😜

[@andrewzach1921]

@@aaronbryant6591so what happened this year? Did you get ripped with all your willpower?

[@nicholasmartinez6043]

His bro science voice is hilarious

[@ab-zo6jt]

And by Dr, I mean dealer. 😂

[@johnjustice8478]

Really great info

[@TheGreektrojan]

In regards to insulin and hunger, I was under the impression that its not insulin but the variability in blood sugar levels (particularly going from high to low) that is one of the primary triggers of hunger signals. This is the reason many people find low carb diets so appetite suppressing (and low GI foods in general). If thats the case, saying insulin isn't the culprit is true but kind of misses the point (aka a grain of truth). If I'm also mistaken, I'd love comments updating my views.

[@jasongarman]

@Toroidal Zeus Calorie balance isn’t gym bro thinking, it’s literally basic physics. If you’re in a calorie deficit, your body isn’t storing the carbs you eat as fat - it’s burning them for your energy needs. At the absolute most, hormones could make you feel more hungry and encourage you to eat more, but ultimately how much you eat is a conscious decision. Stick to whatever plan resulted in the calorie deficit in the first place and you’ll keep losing weight.

[@AnabolicPapi]

@Toroidal Zeus there is more nuance to this… post exercise glucose uptake by the muscle isn’t solely reliant on insulin. The brain and liver also don’t rely on GLUT4 transporters and insulin to uptake glucose either. Those with insulin resistance who consume those carbs will still absorb the glucose in other areas before getting shuttled straight to fat. Even then, the glucose would be converted to triglycerides and probably hang around the liver more so then subcutaneous fat.

[@vicvin64]

Keto hunger suppression is mostly from going from eating highly Palatable ultra processed foods that contain carbs but not only carbs but carbs are the devil regardless amirite, to eating more whole food higher satiating higher protein diet. Glucose surge and drop is normal physiology response to eating. Glucose surge and continued elevation isn't normal it's diabetes. That isn't the fault of the carb its the fault of the full cells unable to uptake more energy and the continued surplus of energy intake. Insulin itself reduces hunger in the research. Like I said to another lost soul, eat 3k calories of plain boiled potatoes I dare you.

[@hata6290]

WFPB Starchy diet ftw :)

[@jamesstramer5186]

Thanks for covering this!

[@Vincent-fv1ch]

Famine was just natures way of putting people contest ready and exotically lean!

[@guisymorello2936]

😂

[@ramfab2009]

Dr Mike how about doing a lecture on women who want to do some type hypertrophy program and what will work best for them.

[@zachhenning3614]

I died laughing when he said "Just shoot em up with Cortisol BRO." Great vid as always!

[@Roflmao30000]

Is eating too much carbs a bad thing? For example 500g of carbs a day but still in a deficit from cardio.

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

no

[@hata6290]

NO, however they should mostly be starchy carbs :)

[@notashton.]

Thanks Dr Mike for giving me more ammo to fat shame my sister.

[@hata6290]

Lmao

[@woodwormweasel]

Any advice for breast cancer patients who have no estrogen due to antihormonal medication? Gaining any muscle is like pulling teeth. Is it even possible still, or the best I can hope for are some strenght gains?

[@theperfectprogression2294]

Eating TOO MUCH of healthy foods is part of why I’m still chubby lol

[@deeshmond]

Eat it, Gary Taubes.

[@zhadumshasheer]

I don't understand the cortisol point. Cortisol can cause hunger spikes and lowers your metabolism, so how does it burn fat and muscle more easily? Is this misinformation? Or does actual physical activity (or lack thereof) make the difference here?

[@friendlyfire4178]

Thank you Bane

[@abdulah3178]

Dr. Mike does the most realistic 'bro voice' hahah

[@Achezvil2003]

“The hormones ha” hahahahahahahahahahhahh LMAO

[@yaohsapbanaparaym478]

I'm was worried I was gonna hear some bullshit! Great stuff!

[@ab-mb8nq]

Do any of you guys find that estrogen or testosterone affects your appetite in some manner?

[@danielhoughtelling9721]

I've watched this several times. For the humor.

[@ryanbowns1517]

Here is what I got from it. If u are treating your body badly i.e crash diets, bad sleep etc. Your hormones levels will take a dump on you and thus will lead to either more fat gain muscle loss etc depending on the caloric intake. But lets not kid ourselves Hormones play a big part that's why people inject them ;)

[@jamealjordon1376]

Pills, potions, lotions, and notions!

[@TraGiiXzaze]

I thought this was going to be a video supporting this take lol.

[@KostadinKody]

Too funny at the end there lol

[@SchuyFit]

Helpful and great content, thanks!

[@MichaelBiebersWorld]

5:15 (not verbatim) "Eat nothing, and you will die of starvation." Wrong. In a fasted state, your hormones switch your "food source" from glucose to ketones. In many cases, your metabolism goes up 115% after 3 days of fasting. This is due to cortisol and epinephrine being cranked up. Body fat IS food. Fat people cannot starve. It's impossible. Starvation occurs, BY DEFINITION, only after all the fat in your body is gone, and then your body starts to eat your muscles and organs.

[@Crom-unism]

Caesar's wreath is growing from his skull. all hail!

[@BSBBandFitness]

BOOM! It’s literally that simple. I’ve been saying this for years. When people say hormones over calories for fat loss that’s a complete joke

[@perryjphilip]

Got a Taco Bell ad before the video started.

[@Magic_beans_]

For the newbies, I’d also incorporate some of the diet advice from your other videos: 1️⃣ Aim for a moderate gain of loss, 0.5-1.0% of body weight per week. Lots of people who “can’t lose weight” have that experience because they hit it too hard or impose rigid rules. Then when they get hungry or have a social event they go way overboard and eat everything. 2️⃣ Expect that after a few weeks your weight loss will slow. If you’re still as active as you were before, adjust your Calories down a bit (5-10%) to get it moving again. 3️⃣ Save a bit of strength for the diet after the diet. If you celebrate the end of your diet by going out and eating all the things you “couldn’t” on your diet, you’re setting yourself up for a backslide. Instead, for the first couple of weeks keep the diet pretty healthy and just enjoy having more food. Then you can pepper some fun foods without so much risk of overdoing it.

[@Magic_beans_]

@Axileus That’s certainly a good approach for the general public and novice lifters. It’s not as efficient as intentional weight management, but it’s easy and low-stress. RP’s audience (at least historically) skews toward intermediate-to-advanced athletes, including many who never learned these basics. They’ve ridden the “eat clean and lift hard” train as far as it’ll go, but if they want to keep getting better, they’ll have to be more deliberate and systematic.

[@PedroTomé1]

Also, talk about stanolone (or androstanolone) and its anabolic and androgenic effects

[@mothafuckajones8262]

Quit making sense and saying things Dr. Mike it's offensive!1

[@Persto1208]

LMAO at that ending

[@FirstStepTravelers]

haha this cracked me up 2:45

[@baileymaloney1961]

Hormones definitely matter more than calories. I’m type 1 diabetic. If I don’t take enough insulin (hormone), I can eat 10,000 calories a day & gain no weight or even lose weight. If I am on insulin, I can barely eat 1 to 2 light meals a day & still get up to 230-250 pounds of muscle pretty easily

[@Sammy_Chouchou]

Ayyyeee, I've kinda maintained 10% body fat year round and have veins popping out of my arms and legs like crazy and of course abs, I must be pretty damn insulin sensitive. I find it effortless nearly with the way I eat.

[@arnoldlarisch7717]

Thank you.

[@ssenger009]

AwesomeNeSS! If you have a calorie surplus you'll gain weight, however, if you have a calorie deficit you'll lose weight DUH....Love the way you presented that part 4:21 LOL! Great content once again DOC :D

[@hata6290]

@Axileus average dude

[@tomwilliams1494]

So it sounds like most hormone responses are not uniquely lipogenic, More so that being in an increased lipogenic state may have hormone responses that are sometimes associated, and that sometimes correlates the 2, but doesn’t at all mean that one causes the other. Does that seem like a sufficient way to explain this to people?

[@Thepukekopatch]

Grains of Truth #2 - I'm sure a bunch of perimenopausal/menopausal women will be putting their hands up to this one. It crashed my progress this year. It came along with an almost OCD level of craving for junk carbs. (chocolate, potato chips, anything heavily processed like that)

[@ab-mb8nq]

What exactly caused the cravings? Low estrogen?

[@Thepukekopatch]

@@ab-mb8nq No idea. Cleared up almost completely when I was prescribed HRT by my doctor.

[@suhwateezea.214]

Dr. Mike looking like a Juggurnaut coca cola can.

[@edmundploppy344]

With deloading on weight loss, what if you're a hundred pounds or more overweight? Would a sustained period of dieting be appropriate, at least until you are at a healthy weight range? Or should a period of maintenance be used even when excessively overweight?

[@a_pet_rock]

So they recommend maintenance phases specifically to prevent rebounding weight in the long term. It doesn't matter if you cut down to 200 if you bounce back to 400. Maintaining at 350, 300, etc. might suck but it's worth doing if it it makes sure you never get back to 400.

[@Magic_beans_]

3:30 Dr. Mike accidentally spilling the beans about the Diet Gulag.

[@bakrantz]

Isn't GLP-1 a hormone that controls hunger. It would seem that hormones play a significant role in how much people eat and how much weight they might gain.

[@carmelquarney157]

I love your content

[@siddhantkumarjena8911]

"Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed but transferred from one system to another"- This shit is called law of conservation of energy and it applies to all natural systems and human body is no exception. I still dont understand what the confusion is.

[@Normie_Normalson]

ACKSHULLY it applies to isolated systems, which are not found anywhere in nature. it is a hypothetical which is useful in certain mechanical operations, but hardly applicable to a complex open system like the human body.

[@PedroTomé1]

@@Normie_Normalson I think the dude wasn't talking about the law of conservation of energy, but another law. The law he's talking about does apply to the human body, because 100% of the energy we take is from food, and in order to perform vital tasks, our body processes the food we eat and, through enaling, we emit energy. If we don't eat food, our body will use our glycogen/fat stores for energy (instead of food).

[@Normie_Normalson]

@@PedroTomé1 it doesn't though because many of the factors which influence energy turnover in the human body are poorly understood. take protein for example, they say 1g of protein is 4 calories, but most protein is not utilized for energy, it's broken down into amino acids to build various structures. so how do we count that? how do we know which protein is being used to build and which isn't? it's a guess at best. not to mention the calorie itself is a very poor metric for measuring food energy. it measures the heat food gives off when fully combusted within a closed system. last I checked our bodies do not combust food, nor consume heat, nor are a closed system. this is made worse by the fact that all 3 macronutrients are broken down and utilized differently, and at different times because of the Randle Cycle.

[@sergiosantana7103]

@@Normie_Normalson there is sooooo much wrong with what you said... but I'll just leave you with this... You know the part when you said protien is broken down.... it takes energy to break things down... energy from food is a calorie... also you know when you said it uses bcaas to build, yup that build part takes energy... again energy obtain by food that is called a calorie... smh... protien can be used as bxaas but can also be converted to glucos in the liver that is called gluconeogenesis, either way energy is used, and that energy is gathered from the ENERGY GATHERD FROM FOOD...

[@sergiosantana7103]

@@Normie_Normalson also, we get the energy from food by adding oxygen to the molecules, this oxidation releases the energy and emits heat, combustion or fire is when something is highly oxidized causing the molecules to combust, but you do NOT need to highly oxidize a molecule to get the energy, so your entire idiotic rant shows your poor comprehension of oxidation...

[@iamcorneliu1097]

3:33 voluntary…yeah sure

[@yebemvammajku1895]

Interesting that war/famine was mentioned in the talk of "hormones don't matter". Why women , in times of famine survive by percentage , more than the male? Male is stronger , male is supposed to be able to endure and go further. Somehow that is never the case. Hormones in women, especially those that are pregnant in those hard times, somehow survive even though they need more sustenance cause the baby needs to eat too. Hormones? Exactly. When your body gets into certain mode, it is able to way and beyond of what normal person can. So... hormones play the part ? Absolutely. But overeating on all kinds of shit? Yeah , won't help.

[@kwadwoadjepong-boateng8737]

But Dr. Mike, hormones matter! They’re why I abandoned CICO along with financial responsibility, the laws of physics & any modicum of respect for mankind. I’m doing just…fine?

[@gironda11]

Repping the Lion's Den gear. Nice!

[@kip.k]

So ironic to get a v shred commercial during an RP video.

[@kapower06]

Will you debate Bart Kay on this topic?

[@notkyle6969]

Is there any special way to fix hormones going out of wack from a diet that is longer than 12 weeks other than eating at maintenance?

[@undeniablereality9904]

Why would your hormones go out of whack from just a 12 week diet? Did you eat 0 grams of fat during the whole diet?

[@notkyle6969]

@@undeniablereality9904 longer than 12 weeks I was in a 1300 cal daily deficit for 40 weeks.

[@undeniablereality9904]

@@notkyle6969 so you lost around 2.5 lbs per week for 40 weeks, I.e., 100 lbs? How man cals per day were you eating and what were your macros like?

[@notkyle6969]

@@undeniablereality9904 yeah. I didn't track macros as I was a complete gym noob, living an unhealthy lifestyle with poor mental health and I swung heavily the other way. I was eating around 2000 calories a day. Spaced out around 2 meals and a snack. rarely any caloric drinks. One meal was typically some source of protein mainly chicken, steak, pork chops and rarely fish, and a vegetable mainly asparagus or broccoli and sometimes corn or potatoes. My other meal was typically leftovers plus a salad/pasta and the occasional fast food meal. For a snack i either made myself a sandwich or had some nuts, or lo cal popcorn.

[@undeniablereality9904]

@@notkyle6969 that's a big deficit for 40 weeks, but how do you know your hormones are messed up?

[@DanO1234567t]

Dr Mike. What’s the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? You can’t hear an enzyme.

[@jessen00001]

Great video 💪 thanks 👍

[@aaronmsteele]

Literally watching every video thats been coming out. Great stuff

[@rostislavroussev8842]

Informative and entertaining. Also, helps clear the confusion caused by fanatics. Greatly appreciated!