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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

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.

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.

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

So if you are any diet that does not have optimal protein and you're not doing resistance training, you'll lose skeletal muscle if you're doing caloric restriction. That's the way that works. So if you are...

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

So if you are any diet that does not have optimal protein and you're not doing resistance training, you'll lose skeletal muscle if you're doing caloric restriction. That's the way that works. So if you are...

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

So if you are any diet that does not have optimal protein and you're not doing resistance training, you'll lose skeletal muscle if you're doing caloric restriction. That's the way that works. So if you are...

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

eating correctly getting that protein and maybe supplementing with essential amino acids if you're too low in protein if you're doing your resistance training which first you just start with getting the person to move because a lot of these people are the average person's walking 3 000 steps a day 3 000 so really if we just got them to walk to 8 000 if we started to get some air squats in you know we just get them moving and you know working with people who are morbidly obese

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

eating correctly getting that protein and maybe supplementing with essential amino acids if you're too low in protein if you're doing your resistance training which first you just start with getting the person to move because a lot of these people are the average person's walking 3 000 steps a day 3 000 so really if we just got them to walk to 8 000 if we started to get some air squats in you know we just get them moving and you know working with people who are morbidly obese

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

eating correctly getting that protein and maybe supplementing with essential amino acids if you're too low in protein if you're doing your resistance training which first you just start with getting the person to move because a lot of these people are the average person's walking 3 000 steps a day 3 000 so really if we just got them to walk to 8 000 if we started to get some air squats in you know we just get them moving and you know working with people who are morbidly obese

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

We oftentimes have to have an air squat over, say, a couch arm because it just hurts so much. So we've got to get the inflammation down. Then you start to improve the diet, right? You get them moving more. You get them sleeping. They might need to do some sleep therapy because a lot of times when you're obese, you don't sleep well. Then you start and you can taper it.

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

We oftentimes have to have an air squat over, say, a couch arm because it just hurts so much. So we've got to get the inflammation down. Then you start to improve the diet, right? You get them moving more. You get them sleeping. They might need to do some sleep therapy because a lot of times when you're obese, you don't sleep well. Then you start and you can taper it.

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

We oftentimes have to have an air squat over, say, a couch arm because it just hurts so much. So we've got to get the inflammation down. Then you start to improve the diet, right? You get them moving more. You get them sleeping. They might need to do some sleep therapy because a lot of times when you're obese, you don't sleep well. Then you start and you can taper it.

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

Will they have to be on it for life? They might have to cycle it for life, low dose. But I contend that that would be better than living a life of obesity on medications.

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

Will they have to be on it for life? They might have to cycle it for life, low dose. But I contend that that would be better than living a life of obesity on medications.

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

Will they have to be on it for life? They might have to cycle it for life, low dose. But I contend that that would be better than living a life of obesity on medications.

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

What are they taking it for? Are they taking it because they had issues? Vanity reasons. Vanity reasons. There's other I mean, yes, you could use it for vanity reasons. However, you could also use it for inflammation. You could use it for APOB, like my husband's on a teensy cycling dose. And these cycling doses are not meant to take your appetite away, right?

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

What are they taking it for? Are they taking it because they had issues? Vanity reasons. Vanity reasons. There's other I mean, yes, you could use it for vanity reasons. However, you could also use it for inflammation. You could use it for APOB, like my husband's on a teensy cycling dose. And these cycling doses are not meant to take your appetite away, right?

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

What are they taking it for? Are they taking it because they had issues? Vanity reasons. Vanity reasons. There's other I mean, yes, you could use it for vanity reasons. However, you could also use it for inflammation. You could use it for APOB, like my husband's on a teensy cycling dose. And these cycling doses are not meant to take your appetite away, right?

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

It's purely to lower his APOB that was chronically elevated. We tried everything, couldn't get it to go. Same with my son is using it for his brain. So you can use low doses of these, not for body composition, but for inflammation, for insulin sensitizing, for neuroregeneration, for microvascular dilation. There's other things they do. And there's a whole host.

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

It's purely to lower his APOB that was chronically elevated. We tried everything, couldn't get it to go. Same with my son is using it for his brain. So you can use low doses of these, not for body composition, but for inflammation, for insulin sensitizing, for neuroregeneration, for microvascular dilation. There's other things they do. And there's a whole host.

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

It's purely to lower his APOB that was chronically elevated. We tried everything, couldn't get it to go. Same with my son is using it for his brain. So you can use low doses of these, not for body composition, but for inflammation, for insulin sensitizing, for neuroregeneration, for microvascular dilation. There's other things they do. And there's a whole host.