Dr. Ben Bikman

And just to touch on your point about intensity, just try to go to failure at least at some point during that overall muscle or that movement.

It doesn't have to be a high weight, low rep.

Even if you're doing a lower weight, higher rep, just get to failure.

Fatigue yourself.

Yeah.

Fatigue yourself.

Yeah.

Which zone are they in?

Yeah, well, to me, high fat, high carb is the worst combination.

for every outcome.

You'd mentioned cardiometabolic with regards to adverse changes in lipoprotein profile.

Absolutely, I agree with that.

But high carb and high fat, just bringing it back to the fat cell, you are now giving it a stimulus of insulin, which is telling the fat cell to get big.

And the fat cell wants to get big most easily just by pulling in fat, which if you're eating fat, it's going to pull in very happily.

But it won't if insulin's low.

And so that's why you can sort of pick which variable you're going to play around with.

Not that you've asked this, but then having touched on what causes the growth of the fat cell, naturally it begs the question, what shrinks the fat cell?

Well, you look at those two levers, the high insulin and the high calorie, you have to pick one.

My only worry is as much as people are so ardently defending the caloric view, which they have for a century now,

So if you just cut calories without addressing someone's underlying high insulin, you're going to make them hungry very quickly.