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JJ Virgin

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

Like he was going down and dying. And this has pulled him out. And guess what? He's happy. So we know like they help with inflammation. They help improve sensitivity. They help with microvascular dilation. They reduce blood pressure. They improve lipid profiles. They are neuroregenerative and cardioregenerative. Like all these things. And there's all this BS out there.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

And a lot of it's because they're being dosed totally crazy. But then you have people out there screaming and yelling that we just need to eat better and exercise well. And clearly we do, but that's not going to save the planet at this point.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

And a lot of it's because they're being dosed totally crazy. But then you have people out there screaming and yelling that we just need to eat better and exercise well. And clearly we do, but that's not going to save the planet at this point.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

And a lot of it's because they're being dosed totally crazy. But then you have people out there screaming and yelling that we just need to eat better and exercise well. And clearly we do, but that's not going to save the planet at this point.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You guys were just together, she told me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You guys were just together, she told me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You guys were just together, she told me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

Here's the issue. If you have fatty liver, 30% of the population now does. Most don't know they have it. If you have insulin resistance, if you're obese, you have a GLP-1 deficiency. Now, we don't know if you also have resistance because a lot of times with hormones, you get resistant as well, like insulin resistance. But let's say you have a GLP-1 deficiency.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

Here's the issue. If you have fatty liver, 30% of the population now does. Most don't know they have it. If you have insulin resistance, if you're obese, you have a GLP-1 deficiency. Now, we don't know if you also have resistance because a lot of times with hormones, you get resistant as well, like insulin resistance. But let's say you have a GLP-1 deficiency.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

Here's the issue. If you have fatty liver, 30% of the population now does. Most don't know they have it. If you have insulin resistance, if you're obese, you have a GLP-1 deficiency. Now, we don't know if you also have resistance because a lot of times with hormones, you get resistant as well, like insulin resistance. But let's say you have a GLP-1 deficiency.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

So we can start to do the things to help your body produce it, right? Like improve your L cells, things like acromantia. You've probably heard of that. Things that help slow down the breakdown of this. There's this DPP-4 enzyme that breaks it down. So we could slow it down. We can help with production of it. However, some of these people may never have it come back online.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

So we can start to do the things to help your body produce it, right? Like improve your L cells, things like acromantia. You've probably heard of that. Things that help slow down the breakdown of this. There's this DPP-4 enzyme that breaks it down. So we could slow it down. We can help with production of it. However, some of these people may never have it come back online.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

So we can start to do the things to help your body produce it, right? Like improve your L cells, things like acromantia. You've probably heard of that. Things that help slow down the breakdown of this. There's this DPP-4 enzyme that breaks it down. So we could slow it down. We can help with production of it. However, some of these people may never have it come back online.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

It doesn't need to be expensive. When you look at the compounded versions, it could be $50 a month. For a lot of these people, they're on polypharmacy. They're spending more on their high blood pressure, their lipid-lowering drugs. And if they went on this, and they eat less, right? So if they went on these things, low dose, a microdose is usually about a fifth of the dose.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

It doesn't need to be expensive. When you look at the compounded versions, it could be $50 a month. For a lot of these people, they're on polypharmacy. They're spending more on their high blood pressure, their lipid-lowering drugs. And if they went on this, and they eat less, right? So if they went on these things, low dose, a microdose is usually about a fifth of the dose.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

It doesn't need to be expensive. When you look at the compounded versions, it could be $50 a month. For a lot of these people, they're on polypharmacy. They're spending more on their high blood pressure, their lipid-lowering drugs. And if they went on this, and they eat less, right? So if they went on these things, low dose, a microdose is usually about a fifth of the dose.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You may have to go up to the starting dose, but then you could back down. But here's what needs to happen. If it could be the case that if you wanted to use one of these, you had to go in and get your body composition tested and be consistent with checking your body composition because it doesn't cause muscle loss. Caloric restriction causes muscle loss.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You may have to go up to the starting dose, but then you could back down. But here's what needs to happen. If it could be the case that if you wanted to use one of these, you had to go in and get your body composition tested and be consistent with checking your body composition because it doesn't cause muscle loss. Caloric restriction causes muscle loss.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

You may have to go up to the starting dose, but then you could back down. But here's what needs to happen. If it could be the case that if you wanted to use one of these, you had to go in and get your body composition tested and be consistent with checking your body composition because it doesn't cause muscle loss. Caloric restriction causes muscle loss.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

Any diet poorly designed causes a 20 to 30% loss in skeletal muscle. That is the diet. It's not the drug. The drug actually doesn't cause muscle loss. It doesn't. In fact, you can gain muscle on the drug. So that's BS. But that's the thing that a lot of people are talking about, right? Not true. It's the diet. It's the diet.