 All right, our next caller is Steven from Missouri. Hey Steven, how can we help you with your question? Hi, I was just curious if you had any insight on these anabolic diets from these YouTube personalities and basically the idea is to create low calorie dense foods using a lot of protein powder and then a lot of added artificial sweeteners and sugars and basically go low calorie on everything. It doesn't matter. If you want bread, go with the lowest calorie bread. My question is, is this technically sustainable? Is there any long-term health benefits to this at all? Any risks, dangers? Well, okay, Steven, so you have just kind of tripped into the secret of fitness. Get out of here. Oh, bullshit. I'm like that. That's complete. It's funny. Crock as shit. It's funny to call it anabolic and then they tell you to go super, super low calorie, which is going to be catabolic. No, that's all gimmicks and jargon used to just sell people on stupid ideas, books or supplements. They're probably selling something to people. Anabolic diet, look, if you're eating in a calorie surplus, if your protein intake is relatively high and you also are training. You're anabolic. You're training in a way that your body wants to build muscle. Congratulations. You're eating in an anabolic state, but aside from that, no, that's complete bullshit. Not only is it not only that, it's bullshit too because you're either anabolic or catabolic always. You're one or the other and if you're in a low calorie diet, you're catabolic. If you're not eating enough calories and you're in a deficit, you're catabolic. The idea that you're anabolic when you're in a deficit or eating low calorie is a ridiculous notion in the first place. Now, the other part of your question was, are there any long-term detriments to it? The answer is, yeah. If your calories are so low that you start to lose lots of muscle, the side effect of that, the detriment of that, is a much slower metabolism and you can lose weight and increase body fat percentage because you've lost so much muscle. So, to give you an example, a person who weighs 100 pounds, who has 10 pounds of body fat on their body, is 10% body fat. If that person loses 10 pounds of muscle, their body fat percentage now went up because they still have 10 pounds of body fat on a now 90-pound body. And I've seen this with clients. Well, they'll not follow my advice, go do some crazy diet, I'll test their body fat and they'll lose 15 pounds and, low and behold, their body fat percentage went up a couple percent and they can't figure it out and have to explain to them. It's a percentage of your overall body weight, you lost muscle. So, if you want a slower metabolism, if you want a flabbier body, then I would recommend doing these programs or these nutrition plans. If you're trying to get long-term sustainable results, you want a faster metabolism, you want to get leaner, build more muscle, I would stay as far away from those things as possible. Makes sense. Do you think it's pretty damaging to the fitness community? So, basically, they're preaching, hey, you can look good, but they're not really considering the health aspect of it. So, people, I mean, even like me, go online, see these things, they may not understand how bad it is for you. Yeah, 100%. I mean, this is the motivation of why we started this. I mean, that was exactly what all of us saw in our space for so, in fact, we were guilty of it. I mean, this is the messaging that we would get down from the company. It was about selling, you know, memberships, it was about selling supplements and so, you know, whatever gimmick or thing that we could come together to sell people on to make more money for the business is how most people online run their business. And it's tough for the consumer, you know, especially when they use a bunch of jargon that you're unfamiliar with to confuse you into thinking that this is the best idea. But that's exactly what motivated the four of us to start MindPomp is to counter a lot of this information. Yeah, I would say easily 90% of the information that's put out by the fitness industry at large, the diet industry at large, and even the wellness industry at large, a good 90% of it is totally wrong. And of that 90%, a good chunk is actually dangerous. So there's just so much crap that's out there in this space. And like Adam said, this is exactly why we started MindPomp because it was very frustrating training clients and hearing these people come to us and say, Hey, I heard this new thing or I read this book or I saw this ad and I want to do this and I got this new diet and friends doing this. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, I felt like I was, you know, I was, you know, fighting an uphill battle. And so how do we reach more people? Let's start a podcast. Let's talk to people about all this bullshit. Thank you very much for your question, by the way. Awesome. Thank you guys. Thank you. Yeah, how frustrating is that, man? When you guys would get clients that would come to you and tell you about stuff like this. So common. We're always having to kind of unpack this and really like teach people why it's so wrong. It's great though. I like that. I'm enjoying these live questions because there's a lot of people that feel that way, but don't convey that or say that. They either just get suckered into it and they say, Oh, who cares? I'll just spend my $107. Let me try it out or don't say anything. So it's great to have somebody who would admit or ask questions about this so we can have dialogue because it is, you're right, Sal. Most of the stuff that's floating around, especially right now in New Year's resolutions, tempting to the momentum super high. So yeah, you want to change quickly. Right. Right now they're getting bombarded with ads more than they ever have.