 Question is from Alexandria is not eating right after I work out slowing down my progress You still picked all these macro questions guy You know workout component I spread it out because I know you guys love talking about All training conversation today, it's okay. No No, not really you're not really slowing down any progress that there You know there's studies that show if you eat after your workout it speeds up the you know part of the recovery process Which would be to replenish energy that you've expended in the muscles That's part of the recovery process But but but it really doesn't matter when you eat if you eat later on you still replenish those energy stores Really it only that the only value in that goes into eating right after your workout Is if you plan on working out again later in the day, right and you need to replenish those You know that I blame the bodybuilding community for this one and this was something that I remember when I was at anabolic window Is your right hand no totally and and I remember when I was competing that this was like one of the easiest Strategies I use to lean out so like I would work towards building my metabolism up and consuming five six thousand calories And then now what time now it's time to cut for a show six eight weeks out or so and I start coming the other Direction one of my favorite things to start to restrict calories is post-workout. I just stopped eating that meal And I would try and stretch myself for as long as I could until the next until I was like I got to eat It's been you know, it's been a couple hours after my workout now any who cares about this this anabolic window that everybody Hypes up like it's that important what I know is that when I go into a workout Especially when I'm following a diet where I'm already eating on average a lower amount of calories and then I go work out I've completely depleted my glycogen stores and if I'm still walking around I go home from the workout I shower I'm doing things around how your fat burning right my body is now I'm gonna switch over to metabolizing fat as a source of energy because I've already tapped into all my my stored energy So I used to look at it like well This is a great opportunity for me to just stay busy keep going through my day Restrict from eating for a couple more hours to maximize the fat But even that doesn't matter unless you're in a calorie deficit Even that right if you're in a calorie deficit that then yeah You're burning if it if you're not even if you wait after your workout doesn't make a big difference It literally really doesn't matter unless you again You're working out multiple times a day and you need to replenish some energy to have another workout now Why is this something that's pushed so hard in the fitness space? Why is this something that I even believed because they want you to take your product right then that's it what they did is was very brilliant marketing is they they Ritualize the consumption of protein bars and protein shakes and what they did is they said hey if you if you eat This right after you work out you recover faster build more muscle you have to do it then they knew if they pressured that and push that People would believe it and ritualize it and they did they sold way more products as a result of that that that false belief But no it's it's because again post workout you're you're you're far less likely to eat a home cooked meal More likely to have the shake that you saved you're right though I mean it the only time it's important is if because of you not eating right if you work out You're missing your macro targets That's it right so if if and that's where I would say yes this has a lot of value because you need to eat Right, I mean if your body needs 150 grams of protein every day it needs 150 grams of protein regardless It's getting right after a workout or not So if and if not like in my case when I decided to start skipping that meal You know if that now all sudden I lose 30 40 grams a day that I and I don't get that made up somewhere else in my meals Well, then yes that could affect my progress But you know all I would do is now my other five meals that I had the day instead of having six ounces I'm having seven or eight ounces of meat And that would make up for that difference of now skipping that meal and not getting that protein right afterwards The the difference of missing that anabolic window is so negligible. It's not even worth I think paying any attention to it and in fact like I said I found it Right after a really hard workout. I'm not starving It takes personally myself like it takes me a while to come down before I even want to eat It was only in my early years of personal training And when I fell for that same myth where I used to like pound a shake right afterwards I thought I had to get into this anabolic window But I found for leaning out for leaning out It was like one of the best strategies was for me to now what about what about gut health I know you guys like interviewed a specialist on this in terms of like the timing of that And when right after you work out and your body's inflamed And then you're adding like certain types of food that might add to that like inflammation in excess Well, that's the irony. The irony is eating right after you work out could contribute to gut health issues because When you're working out and pushing yourself you do get localized inflammation on the areas that you work out But you also get the systemic rise in inflammation the whole body including the gut Including the by the way, it's you know when you push yourself really hard and you throw up Or if you know it's it's part of your body doesn't want to do both, right? It wants to not have to digest while you're Exerting yourself so the gut gets inflamed along with the rest of the body now you're going to throw food at it or a shake at it inflammation Increases the the the odds that you're going to get what's called intestinal permeability hyperpermeability Meaning that food particles protein particles Pass through the gut and the intestine when they shouldn't Into the bloodstream your body makes them invaders Yeah, and your body exactly it reacts like it's a foreign invader develops an immune response And this may be why that protein shake that you've been having post-workout for the last five years all of a sudden gives you Gas and diarrhea and other issues you've developed an intolerance to it You've actually trained your body to become intolerant to it by having it right after your your hard work out Now I remember when we discussed that and I kind of afterwards I remember digging into that because I found that very fascinating and the likelihood of that is really small Although if you're somebody who trains like CrossFit or you train Excuse me really high intense right different story Your average person who works out in the gym that does a 60-minute mass worker or whatever the the intensity level of that You're not getting you're the the yeah, you're not getting the effects of like but if you already have gut issues Yeah, probably not a good idea right right not ideal And and again you're you're splitting hairs on the the actual benefits that all the science supports of doing that for insulin spike reasons and all that bullshit