Derek (More Plates More Dates)

So there's a Goldilocks zone.

Of course, you can't just, you know, become, you know, a malnourished, you know, low like bodybuilder shredded person and just continue to get this elevation and proportion.

It's at some point you will end up.

essentially starving your body of the nutrients needed to actually support hormone production but in general you know guys who are you know like 12 like 12 to 15 body fat ish will find that they have a increase in testosterone dramatically relative to when they were obese and it's like

super significant in how much it will improve hormone status.

And then the sleep, I think I might have already mentioned that.

I think it is pretty dramatic pending and exceeds your capacity to recover.

So that sounds like a weird way to answer the question, but like some people have a higher tolerance for stress and that's, you know, reliant on a bunch of different factors.

But if you are somebody who is not fueling yourself correctly to handle that amount of endurance training, like you were, let's just say you're in a calorie deficit and

and you're trying to be, like, I don't know, six-pack shredded for the summer and, like, look as good as possible, but also fuel your, like, endurance event efforts, like, you're probably, like, not doing two... You're not doing two birds with one stone.

Like, you're doing two things, like, inadequately, almost certainly, and malnourishing yourself and ending up in a state of hormone deficiency as a result, probably.

Like, you see in studies all... There are cases that you can point to of...

what happened to natural bodybuilders as they diet for a show.

And you can see in like, as they start to get closer to stage ready, which is like the most shredded, basically any documented human gets essentially.

The requirement to get there is a state of malnourishment, essentially.

And at some point, typically, once you start to cross into that single-digit body fat threshold, you start to become so malnourished that you are inhibiting your actual capacity to produce hormones adequately.

You almost enter into like...

you know, preservation mode slash like hibernation or something.

And it's kind of just like save yourself.

We're starving to death.