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Mike Israetel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2772 total appearances

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The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

If you have to diet hard enough to lose a bunch of weight, your bandwidth for your work, your bandwidth for family, your bandwidth for enjoying your life have to go down. Otherwise, you're just not dieting hard enough.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And if you now have a solution to the hard dieting problem in which you can actually do much better job with less input, that doesn't mean you're on the couch eating Cheetos, though it could if you choose.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And if you now have a solution to the hard dieting problem in which you can actually do much better job with less input, that doesn't mean you're on the couch eating Cheetos, though it could if you choose.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

What it means is now you have more bandwidth that opens up for all of these other wonderful things in which you can express your conscientiousness, build your business better, spend more time with your family.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

What it means is now you have more bandwidth that opens up for all of these other wonderful things in which you can express your conscientiousness, build your business better, spend more time with your family.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

My wife was either genetically or epigenetically geared to just get fat. At one point, she was almost 200 pounds at 4'11". And she probably has more willpower than I've ever seen in a single human being. She'll break herself before she quits at stuff. And her hunger signaling was so profound that she battled it her whole life, had lots of victories, lots of defeats.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

My wife was either genetically or epigenetically geared to just get fat. At one point, she was almost 200 pounds at 4'11". And she probably has more willpower than I've ever seen in a single human being. She'll break herself before she quits at stuff. And her hunger signaling was so profound that she battled it her whole life, had lots of victories, lots of defeats.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And her introduction to GLPs, to Ozempic, was the kind of thing that borders on the religious experience for the first time ever. To be like, oh, this is how normal people live their lives. And now she's whatever body weight she wants to be and lives at a category level of life experience she was unable to access before.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And her introduction to GLPs, to Ozempic, was the kind of thing that borders on the religious experience for the first time ever. To be like, oh, this is how normal people live their lives. And now she's whatever body weight she wants to be and lives at a category level of life experience she was unable to access before.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

Because especially of females of reproductive age, having 70 pounds extra adiposity, how the world sees you, how you see yourself is totally different. She almost failed out of medical school because she was dieting so hard to try to stay at a certain body fat, their brain just wasn't working. It's easy for bodybuilders and other folks to say, well, you just got to gut through it.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

Because especially of females of reproductive age, having 70 pounds extra adiposity, how the world sees you, how you see yourself is totally different. She almost failed out of medical school because she was dieting so hard to try to stay at a certain body fat, their brain just wasn't working. It's easy for bodybuilders and other folks to say, well, you just got to gut through it.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

Guy, you don't do anything except shoot steroids, play PlayStation, and train with weights. Thank God for your supplement contract. There was somebody on social media that she opened up about her journey. This bodybuilder is not even competitive. He's just a guy who lifts weights. He's a personal trainer. You said something like, you failed at life if you needed the Ozempic.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

Guy, you don't do anything except shoot steroids, play PlayStation, and train with weights. Thank God for your supplement contract. There was somebody on social media that she opened up about her journey. This bodybuilder is not even competitive. He's just a guy who lifts weights. He's a personal trainer. You said something like, you failed at life if you needed the Ozempic.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

My friend, if we start listing off my wife's accomplishments, it's going to be a 10 to 0 against you. You're nothing to her. She had every bit more willpower. Whatever it is you got good at, she could recreationally get good at faster than you, better than you, just as a joke, and then quit, and then come back and do it again. But because you have no idea what it's like to want food that much,

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

My friend, if we start listing off my wife's accomplishments, it's going to be a 10 to 0 against you. You're nothing to her. She had every bit more willpower. Whatever it is you got good at, she could recreationally get good at faster than you, better than you, just as a joke, and then quit, and then come back and do it again. But because you have no idea what it's like to want food that much,

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

You're out of touch. For me, it became very easy to connect with my wife on food drive. After I had dieted down to a body fat that was competitive bodybuilding appropriate enough times, you feel what it's like to be obsessed. All you're thinking about is food. All you're thinking about. Food tastes good to a level of you're like, am I eating drugs? What the hell is going on?

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

You're out of touch. For me, it became very easy to connect with my wife on food drive. After I had dieted down to a body fat that was competitive bodybuilding appropriate enough times, you feel what it's like to be obsessed. All you're thinking about is food. All you're thinking about. Food tastes good to a level of you're like, am I eating drugs? What the hell is going on?

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And you're in pain physically from the expansion of your abdominal tract. And you're still eating and your eyes are this wide, like a hungry, ravenous dog who like it is tortured and not allowed to eat for a long time. That's how a lot of people live in the world. And again, there's two variables that come into determining how fat you are. Primarily one is food noise. One is conscientiousness.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

And you're in pain physically from the expansion of your abdominal tract. And you're still eating and your eyes are this wide, like a hungry, ravenous dog who like it is tortured and not allowed to eat for a long time. That's how a lot of people live in the world. And again, there's two variables that come into determining how fat you are. Primarily one is food noise. One is conscientiousness.

The Peter Attia Drive
#335 โ€’ The science of resistance training, building muscle, and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilding | Mike Israetel, Ph.D.

So if we just end the food noise, some people will still be overweight, even if they're auto-Zenpa because they're like, ah, whatever, just Reese's cups. Enough Reese's cups can defeat any amount of pharmacology so far. For those people, all those discussions about like, hey, you should be more diligent, you should be planning, yeah, they're all still valid.