Ben Greenfield

And I'll use an electrical muscle stimulation suit before something like that.

Cause I know I'm just like, dude, I'm gonna be so sore.

I'm not going to want to work out anyways.

And so I'll use it before a period of time where I know I'm going to be like super sedentary.

Like a technology or just like a practice or anything?

Yeah, I would say that, so let's cut straight to the useless since we were just talking about fat.

Any of those like so-called thermal burning agents, like pre-workouts that amp up fat oxidation or anything like that.

It is true that like green tea extract, you know, the EGCG,

caffeine, any of these central nervous stimulants, they do shift the body into a state of higher fat oxidation, but it's such a small bump that you're never going to lose any appreciable amount of weight using some kind of like a thermic burning agent.

So that would be one that I'm still surprised at seeing those marketed like raspberry ketone extract or whatever.

And then something surprising

that I think might also be kind of like controversial as well, is I think GLP agonists are some of the most useful weight loss compounds that we've ever developed through science and can be incredibly helpful for people who have difficulty controlling their appetite, who want to lose weight, who want to manage lipids, who want to like

decreased liver enzymes.

There's even evidence now with effects on neural inflammation.

And I actually think they're really useful drugs.

I think they're prescribed in a dosage that's too high.

Like if you were to go to a doctor and just get a standard prescription for like redditrutide or something like that, it's such a high dose that you get nauseous and you lose all enjoyment.

It's almost like anhedonic for life in general.

Like you lose just like the dopaminergic response to not just food, but a lot of things, which is why depression is one of the side effects of some of these drugs.

And it slows gastric motility.