 First question is from Sal Rules, Adam Droules, 420. This person couldn't be more fucking lame. I bet this is going to be a really good question. Can your hormonal profile affect where your fat is distributed on your body? Yes, next question. No, actually, I mean, it definitely can. They'll find that men, when their estrogen levels rise or are too high, they'll store more body fat in more feminine places, like on their hips or their chest, for example. I shared this. Remember, I shared this when I was going through all this. When I came off of testosterone, and I remember telling you guys, we talked more off-air than on-air, but I know I've mentioned it on-air, where I was like, man, you're just fat booty. I remember that. Man, I was jiggly. I got around my hips and my obliques. I remember when you told us that. I was trying not to laugh because of the way you're talking. I was like, bro, this is weird. I just don't like what I'm seeing right now. And women that will have really high stress and high cortisol, they'll store it more in their gut and in their belly. And they find in studies that women who store more body fat in the places that traditionally women will store them, the hips, butt area, will have healthier offspring and will have better health than women who store a similar amount of body fat, but in places where they're not traditionally supposed to be storing it. So yeah, hormones can definitely play a role in where you store body fat. And of course, it could play a role in how much body fat you store. The studies on men on... Because I know ever since working with Dr. Rand and their hormone clinic, I've done more reading on this. And they'll do studies with men who will go on testosterone replacement therapy. So they'll go from low testosterone to high testosterone. And they'll find that even without working out, they're just leaner as a result. Their body will just burn more body fat. So this could definitely happen. But what's the moral of the story? Just be healthy, right? Just be healthy overall. Well, it was interesting. I think I picked this question because so Courtney and I were actually, like when we were down in St. Louis, we were people watching and we were at this pier and these two guys were kind of walking by. They had more of like a pear shape. And she was asking me about that. I was like, oh, that's so strange. It didn't look like a normal fat distribution for men. Didn't you share a study a long time ago actually that they showed that like men that store body fat there had higher levels of estrogen? Yeah. I think you shared that. Yeah, I think you shared that a long time ago. Yeah. And they'll show again that a person's body fat distribution will change based on the hormone. That's definitely a genetic component, but the hormones also influence kind of what's happening. And that can change. That can change. Absolutely. So again, if you're unhealthy, then your body fat distribution will start to look a little bit off. And you know, it's funny because body fat distribution generally tends to be a particular way. As a trainer, I remember early on being able to accurately identify clients that had liposuction. Oh yeah. I remember the first time this happened, I was early trainer and I'm testing this woman's body fat percentage and she's, she wanted a higher trainer because she wanted to lose weight. And I remember I go to test her bicep and tricep. So you know, one of the classic caliper tests is you do bicep, tricep, sub scapula, right? So right below the shoulder blade and then the suprailiac crest, right? Which is kind of the crest of the pelvis here right below it. So I go, you know, I do all those and then I get to the tricep and the tricep measurement for her was lower than the bicep measurement, which never happens. It never happens. Tricep measurement is almost always higher, especially in women, than bicep. And I tested it and I did it like several times. I'm like, this isn't right. And then just instinctively, I'm like, have you had liposuction? And she's like, yeah. She thought I was like some kind of brilliant genius. I'm like, no, it's because your tricep measured lower than normally do that. Yeah. And when they do that, when they do liposuction, it doesn't change your body's ability to store body fat. It just does it in weird different ways. I've always thought that you look better too. I feel like you look better with a higher body fat percentage, more fat on your body, evenly distributed than it taking it in certain places. Yes. Does that make sense? I remember saying that to clients, like, you know, I know you think that you want to do this lipo thing, but it just doesn't look natural. It doesn't look right for you to suck 20 pounds of fat only out of your gut or only out of your thighs, because then it looks, doesn't look evenly distributed in just the way our body stores fat if you're healthy, hormonally. It looks like something's off. And then you have like pockets of it I've seen sometimes too, where it's like, yeah, so it just doesn't distribute the same after that. No, no, it looks weird and can actually look unhealthy as a result. Agreed. So yeah, where you put body fat on your body can actually show or display if you're healthy or not, and people will instinctively know this. You know, when female athletes at them, you might be interested in this, high level female athletes tend to store less body fat in their limbs than the average female. So women tend to store more in their limbs than men do. And obviously it's because it offsets their center of gravity if they're pregnant or whatever. But female athletes at high levels, and this is probably a genetic thing, tend to be leaner in their limbs because obviously leaner limbs freeze you up to be more athletic order. Yeah.