 In this episode of Mind Pump, so for the first 42 minutes we do what's known as our introductory conversation. This is where we talk about current events, our lives, and a lot of fun stuff. And then after that we get into the fitness portion of the episode where we answer questions that are asked by our audience on our official Mind Pump media Instagram page. Where it says quaw? Ask us a question, just go there, go underneath the quaw meme. Ask us a question if we like it and we pick it, we will answer it in an episode like this one. All right, so here's what we talked about in the first 42 minutes of this episode. We talked about impactful listener messages. We got a message from one of our listeners and apparently Adam's bad attitude saved his soldier's life. Talking shit saves life. I am not making this up. It's a true story. Then I talked about how Quentin Tarantino is not going to be changing or editing his movie for China. It's a big middle finger to one of the biggest markets in the world. Stand up to the man. Kind of cool. I talked about visiting my good friend Max Lugovir over in LA to do a podcast with him. We talked about Brett Contreras. He was just in recently to do a podcast with us and we really liked the guy. Glutemaster. I brought up the natural endo cannabinoid system in the body. So I talked about how it operated, what it did for you, all of the natural endo cannabinoids and of course that turned into a conversation regarding phytocannabinoids and their potential benefit. Phytocannabinoids are things like THC. You might know that from marijuana, but there's also lots of other cannabinoids and a lot of them have potential health benefits. Now, one of our favorite products that's THC free or extremely low in THC. So it's a legal product. It's based off of hemp and it's full spectrum. So it provides lots of cannabinoids, not just CBD, but others is Ned. Ned is the maker of high quality hemp oil extracts and we have a discount for you. If you go to helloned.com forward slash mine pump, you'll get 15% off your first purchase. Then I talked about another paper on the longevity benefits of strength, of being stronger. Adam talked about how this is his absolute favorite time of the year. Justin talked about his rat problem at home and how they're eating all of his pumpkins. And then I mentioned how Doug is the expert mouse killer. I talked about how Jessica freaked out because it was a spider in the bathroom. We talked about the show righteous gemstones. It's absolutely hilarious. And then we got into the fitness portion of this episode. Here's the first question. This person wants to know what the difference is between grass fed meat and wild game meat. So what are the differences? What are the health benefits? And this turned into a conversation about the benefits of grass fed meats versus grain fed meats. 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Our most popular muscle building and metabolism boosting program maps and a ball is the one that we've sold the most of is 50% off only in this month of October. Here's how you get the discount. Go to maps red.com and use the code red 50 RED 50 no space for the discount. So yesterday, well, first I got an email from Ann and, you know, she'll every once in a while she'll send over. She goes through, I mean, all the customer service stuff that we get right. So every once in a while we get somebody who just sends in like a really nice letter. And yesterday we had got one that she'd sent over and I was reading it. And I have a hard time with reading these. They give me emotional, dude, because some of the things that people say, like this, this guy had a daughter who's committed suicide at 14 years old and put him on that path, the same thing. And he said two years ago, he had just kind of stumbled across our podcast. And, you know, after two years of listening started to put into practice a lot of things that we talk about on the show and, you know, was basically thinking us and saying that we saved his life. That's the one that I read. Yeah. That's crazy. Super powerful. Super crazy. So I'm like, literally just, I was sharing that with Katrina. Same time I'm going through and like my DMs and answering questions and stuff, trying to get to as me as I can. I get this other one like same day. And this one's like powerful and funny at the same time. I thought I had to share this. And it says, Hey, brother, this is pretty random. I don't know when you're going to get time to read this, but you've you've saved lives. He says we took some pretty rough fire today. And one of my best friends got hit by an AK 47 round to the chest. Oh, this is a soldier. Yeah. Wow. While I was tending to him and then pulling him out of the kill zone, he said he was scared. But he then told me that he had hurt. He then told me that he had to hear you roast Sal for being a nerd one more time. No, that's right, bro. Save lives talking shit about you. It's all. Hey, bro, there's a reason for everyone. I was thinking, I was just thinking to myself the other day, like what could the possible reason be for Adam's asshole attitude? Like what's the good saving lives dog? You just saved a fucking divine intervention. Bad ass soldier. I believe the only reason he's alive is because he's too fucking petty to not hear you at least one more time talk shit. So he says, I know you understand that you're doing for the fitness community, but on a personal level, you've reached out to my troops and you sound just and have impacted all of us on another level. Thank you. To be powerful, to be thanked by by men and women who are going out there and putting their lives on the line is just yeah. I don't feel worthy to even be thanked by this special place for me for anybody serving for us. That's fucking awesome. So shout out to Sergeant Roda. How do I say Rodoya? He did fuck it up. I knew I would fuck it up. Shout out to my dude. That just goes to show you like, you know, how tough these people are. Like you just got shot and you want to be, you want, you send out some humor. You know what I mean? Because you, you know, you're looking at your friend and you're probably like, oh, scared for me. We were messaging back and forth. I was like, I almost missed it. So that was a message sent, I think like a week ago, and he had just shared like a squat and scroll. And every time I see the squat and scrolls, I try and throw them up as soon as I see him and give love to everybody that's, that's, you know, spreading the message. And I clicked on it, shared it. It pops back up in my inbox. And then above I see that he has messaged me like two other times and here's this message. I think it's like a week old. I'm like, oh my fucking God, bro. Somebody sent me this and I didn't even see it, which man, I tell you what, anybody who's, who's, who's messaged me anything I haven't got back to, it's just, it's impossible. It's 100% impossible. And I do my best to try and get to as many people as I can. And it's kind of a sad, sad, sad and good at the same time, right? Obviously it's, it's good for business reasons that we've scaled to that level to where we are getting that many, you know, emails per day, that many DMs per person. But it's also a sad day for me because one of the things I think that we all prided ourselves on when we were building this thing was that we connected to all of our people. I mean, we were able to talk to every single person at one point. You just do your best, you know, you just do as good as you can if it gets, it gets out of hand and it's impossible, but you just do your absolute best. But man, I mean, we appreciate it. We appreciate the hell out of it. You know what else is, speaking of soldiers, I learned this a long time ago. So I don't know if this is true, but I think I read this in an article that some soldiers were using tampons for bullet holes. So they'd get shot, they'd have a bullet hole and apparently a tampon is an incredible way to stop the bleeding real quick. They'll stuff it in the hole. Have you guys heard of this? I have not. Maybe it makes sense. But yeah, that's a, I don't know if it's resourceful. I don't know if this is like, I read an article a long time ago and the way my memory works is I remember reading it. I don't know if it's true. I feel like you're doing a commercial right now for like, you know, we've got Tampa X. By the way, we're sponsored by Tampa X. Yeah, Tampa X saves lives. Yeah, Tampa X saves lives. Yeah, no, but maybe Doug can look it up, but I remember reading that and thinking that's CVS near you. That's brilliant, right? Because it's the way it's shaped. It makes perfect sense. And it's kind of designed to kind of do that. To go in a hole. Yeah. Wow. Let me see. No, that's not what it says, Doug. I think he's making this one up. No, dude. For gunshot, we'll click on that. Tampons are not sterilized, not really a need for them. Clean and free for breeze. Yes. But when using, it's obvious that a tampon doesn't come close to filling. I know they used to use like super glue for cuts and like, at least stuff like that. Sounds like something you saw in a movie and then thought it was interesting. Oh, here you go. Snopes. Let's see. Snopes. See, numerous soldiers have told us that yes, tampons are indeed carried in medical kits and are used on bullet wounds in the field. That makes me feel better when I have to go buy my wife tampons. This is for the bullet holes. You never know what's out there. Snipers and bushes. You're all embarrassed. Where your camo had. I may save your life one of these days. The guys looking at you know, oh, these are for the, this is for the gunfire. I'm going to be under later. You know what I mean? All those bullet holes. I'll use this up tonight. That's how crazy it's going to be. I'm not doing errands with my wife. 12 bullet holes. You know what I mean? Anyway, dude, I was, did you guys read what's happened with Quentin Tarantino? No. So I did not know this makes obvious sense. It's logical, but a lot of movies and entertainment in the U.S. has to be modified and changed like entire scenes of a movie have to be changed in order for it to be distributed in a country like China. Because China, as you guys know, is communist. So they control a lot of things. They really try to control what their population sees and whatnot, more so than most countries. And so what they'll do is they'll screen a movie and then they'll say, this part has to go. And then replace this. For example, there was a scene in the Avengers. I don't remember what the scene was, but in order for the Chinese government to approve the Avengers to be released in China, and that's a huge market. China is the second largest. They just like deleted Captain America. Yeah. Captain China. Yeah, exactly. In terms of Captain China. No, they had, there was a scene in Captain America, excuse me, in the Avengers where they had to add, they shot an entire scene where there was a Chinese doctor helping some of the people. And then that's the only way that they would approve it. So they had to make a whole scene with this Chinese doctor. That was, what? Yes. And I think it replaced another scene. Anyway, Quentin Tarantino, his movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I think it was. Yeah. I never saw that one. Yeah. So I saw, I was boring. I think it's, I think that's the movie that they're talking about. China asked him to change a bunch of stuff. And Quentin Tarantino said, fuck you. And so he's not changing any of his movies to be viewed, to be shown in China. That's a lot of money he's going to lose too. No. Yeah. More filmmakers need to be like that though. Well, I mean, think about it this way. It's easy to say that. That's hard to find. It is easy to say that. But I mean, it's, that's the true artist and like the true, you know, like if you want to put it out there, I just love to see like real art out there, not just like the commercialized shit that, you know, they're literally doing it because that's a huge market. They have to play those games. Huge market. You're talking about like doubling your income. At least. That's what I'm saying. It's not more. Some movies gross more in China. Right. So that would be, that would be tough, man. You make this blockbuster movie. Plus you're making a product. You hit a home run here in the States. And you know, all you have to do is switch a few things out. For me, it would depend on what they asked me to change because I get that it's a product and you have to change the product for different markets. Like I have no problem obviously producing something in a different language or you know, you have to change certain things just to get the right rating if you want to be PG 13 or rated R. So I get it, but it depends. Like if they said to me like, yeah, we'll do your movie, but let's take all the American flags out. And then I'll be like, do you guys prefer having subtitles or having them like just dubbed over? Subtitles. Yeah. I hate. I don't know how you can watch a movie like that when it doesn't line up. I was crazy. I did watch one like that. What's the show? It's actually the second season came back out. I think I, I think I, I think I got you guys watching this. I thought for sure. Yes. I know what you're talking about too. Yes. The dark, dark, dark. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like dubbed. The only time I liked dubbed is probably because I was raised watching them dubbed samurai. Old Kung Fu movies. Yeah. Old Kung Fu movies. Yeah. Those are fun. Well, cause you add your own dialogue. That's what I do. It's just the fake, the fake sounds of punches and kicks. You just gotta add it yourself when you see the punch, the punch hits and then like a split second later, it's like, yeah. Whoa. That hits went so fast. Yeah. Went faster the speed of light. How was the, how was your visit with our boy Max? He went saw Max yesterday. Bro. I love that guy so much. He's such a, he's a champion. Bro. He's like, uh, you ever meet someone and you're like, wow, we're very much alike in very weird ways. Well, didn't we agree that if you were to die, that that's who we would use? Hey, I'm telling you dude, isn't that the third of me going to, and him and I have a really good chemistry. Like anytime we're on, uh, video or, you know, audio together, we flow very, very well. Like I did that one live. How did he got a bunk bed for you? He's such a, he's such a bachelor too. And you see the way he, the way he lives and stuff like that. Yeah. He's such a, yeah. But anyway, um, great chemistry with that guy. And we always do a good job together when we talk about a particular topic. So I was on his podcast and we talked about like the, the, the value and non-value of counting calories and macros and that got real deep. Then we talked about, uh, game changers, the documentary, because right now it's going crazy. Oh yeah. And, um, he's getting hammered by the super, you know, zealot vegan crowd and he doesn't understand it. He thinks it's, you know, he thinks it's absolutely crazy. So we talked about that for, for a while, but it's funny because, uh, I posted a couple instances, you know, Instagram stories. Oh, I'm here with max or whatever, bro, at least 5,000 girls. Oh my God. Could you like, uh, I don't know, connect us. It was like, I think he's America's number one health and fitness bachelor. Oh yeah. Would you say that? I'm telling you, it was like 15 or 20 women, you know, girl commenting. I love him. Oh, he's great. Oh my God. I love him so much. Heart, you know, heart, eyes with heart, whatever. Like, oh my God. He says Martin cute and awesome and oh my God. Yeah, dude. It cracks. Yeah, I get it, dude. Isn't it funny how people don't even know who someone is and they're like, they get so fanatical with that kicks like small puppies and they don't even know that. That'd be terrible. You know what I mean? Why max? Why? You're hanging out with them, you know, and, you know, it's just, dude, so many good things. They had to do one dark thing, you know, just have this one thing and it's like, whoa dude, what was that for? I kick puppies. He's like, I got some, I got this hobby, you know, I know we're close. Yeah. I like to kick small. It was never supposed to get out, but I kicked puppies. Reversal of all the things I thought about you. No, he's a, he's a, I'll tell you what right now, man. I understand it. If I had a sister that was available, I would for sure fucking. We're going to bust him down. I would close him on being in my family because he's such a good guy. We'd be competitive with that. I'd want to get the rose. We're going to compete for Max's love. He took me to Erwin. Have you guys ever been to Erwin? Yes. Christina just like raised about it. It's overrated. No, no, hold on a second. We've never been there. Yes, we have. It's like Whole Foods. We didn't go there. I've been there. I've never been there. It's like the, it's the, I guess there's even even more posh version of Whole Foods, even though Whole Foods was already. It's like Whole Foods was more expensive. Dude, so we wait for it. So we go there and he's telling me about it. First off, they are fucking rad. They have a juice bar where you could get drinks that are like, with all these crazy herbs and plants and shit. Yeah, but some of Whole Foods are like that too. No, no, Whole Foods does not have fucking deer, velvet, antler and shishandra and you know, cordyceps that they'll put in your, they don't have all that. This place did. And so I bought a drink. That is exotic. I bought a drink called Jing Booster or something like that. Jing Booster and I looked at all the ingredients and it was definitely designed to give you the boner power. Hey, is that what it's for? Yeah, for sure. So I, I had a cup of that. So that's interesting. You wouldn't have that before you and Max podcast by yourself. It was an interesting choice of drinks there. It was after. Hey, give me the boner drink. I'm about to go hang out with my buddy. I want to be excited, but like, not just excited, really excited. I want to be able to move this without my hands. No, no, no. It was, it was after we podcasted. For the record, I don't need Jing Booster before I meet with Max. It's just not something. It's just a national thing. Hey, speaking of cool people, the podcast we do with Brett, which is going to be released later on. I really liked Brett. You know what I got? You know what I like about him? I forgot that you were a dick to him. The glute man. Yeah, a long time ago. I forgot. He totally, uh, I felt like he was a little nervous at first. And I thought, I wonder why he feels that way right now. Like, I think we're really. The sales fall, I guess. And then I remembered like, oh, that's right. So I was a dick to him on Instagram. I wasn't a dick, bro. I was, I think you. I challenged him. You and shallow got after him one time. I challenged him. I wish I remember what it was over though. I don't know. We were trying to figure that out. So he, I think he came into the studio thinking that we didn't like him. No, but I must have been like, uh, like hip thrust versus squat, like which one was like in terms of like athletic performance. I think that's what it was. I think it was. And I, all I did was challenge him. And, and if you guys recall, Brett came back extremely intelligently, with lots of integrity, provided studies. Him and I went back and forth with a good debate. And then I thought to myself, I like him. And look, when I go, he's very measured. Yeah. When I want to debate someone on, on social media, it's not because I honestly want to be an asshole. No, I'm busting your balls. I think there are the approach that we, we have. And I told him straight up, I said, you know, one of the things, we like to go challenge a lot of the PhDs. And not because we were trying to be a dick, but because it ends up having for the most part, a really good, intelligent conversation. And that's what he does. Here's what I like most about it. I was just talking to Jessica about this. The thing about Brett Contreras that I really appreciate, and we learned this through the podcast, is he's been a personal trainer for a very long time. Yeah. So he, Oh, you can tell by the way he answers. That's it. That's 100%. Yeah. And you can tell by the way he answers every single thing that we talk about on the episode that's coming up with him. And, and even the way he posts, like you, I felt that from him when we were, we were talking about stuff. He will, he would reference a study, but then he always talks like, well, in this case, or, or there's always exceptions to the rule. Like he's really careful to, and you know that, because what did he say he is, his three, he goes, he goes, I'm a personal trainer first. No, lifter for, lifter for a personal trainer, second, and then third, a scientist. That's right. And I like that because there aren't a lot of great studies done around exercises. The sample sizes are typically not big or biased. And till this day, the most you'll ever learn about fitness is if you go out and train people for 15 or 20 years. There's just not a lot of money and research in, like fitness in general, because it's just like, I mean, there's no, they want to create the pill. They want to create the pill to get you all the results. They don't want to study it. Speaking of in, in fitness space and the pill and like, man, I think, I don't think I've ever seen so much CBD stuff hitting, like, I mean, my thread is just flooded of everybody pushing and moving CBD right now. Are you guys seeing this right now? It's, oh yeah, dude, everywhere. It's so stupid. You can't avoid it. It's so overplayed and they're promoting it for things that it has no evidence that it benefits. It's just a cool, you know, actually you remind me, I was, you know, because I was in LA, you know, being on Max's podcast. I was also on Mike Catharwood's new podcast. Oh, how was that? He's a cool guy, super, super cool guy. Did you talk to him about training with Josiah at all? No, no, we sat down, podcasted, and then he had a podcast right after me. So I just, I talked to him for a little bit and then I had to take off. But very, very cool guy. Nice dude. You know, he's been working out for a long time as well. But anyway, because I was there, I had these gaps, you know, in between the two podcasts. So I actually sat down, had lunch, and had like two and a half, three hours to myself. So I thought, I'm going to learn more about the endocannabinoid system of the body. Because that's totally normal. Yeah, yeah, light reading. So the endocannabinoid system is the body's natural system that utilizes what are known as endocannabinoids. And we only, the only reason why we ever discovered these in the first place was because scientists were trying to figure out how the hell THC makes people high. So way back when we discovered, you know, THC, or not discovered, but yeah, discovered THC, we were trying to figure out how the hell does this make people feel high. We can't figure out the mechanisms through the process of studying it. We discovered receptors in the body that THC attaches to. I don't know if it was the CB1 or CB2 receptor we discovered first, but it was one of those. And then from there, we're like, okay, if these receptors are here, there has to be a natural chemical in the body that attaches to these receptors. And so they, they looked and looked and looked. And for a while it was like, you know, theorize that we had it, but they couldn't figure it out. Anyway, eventually they discovered these natural endocannabinoids that are in the body. There's, there's five, I believe, that we've identified, actually have them written down. Anandamide, that's the first one that I think I bring that one up quite a bit. There's something called 2AG. AG stands for arachidontal glycerol. There's viridhamide. There's NADA. And then there's one called nolatin ether. So these are all the natural cannabinoids your body produces that work throughout the body. And these are the, these are the things that we really fully understand that the impact in the human body. Because you think, well, what are these things for? Why do we have them? How do they regulate the body? They work through the body's pain and inflammation system. So it's an important part of our, of our body's ability to modulate pain and inflammation so that it's appropriate. Because remember, inflammation isn't good or bad. It's, it's, if it's appropriate, then it's, then it's good. You need inflammation to signal the body. Too much inflammation can, can wreak havoc on the body. Right. Feeding and energy regulation. So hunger, appetite, but also, Oh, that's interesting. Also how your body regulates energy. So cannabinoids can actually tell the body to burn more calories or burn less calories. Yeah. This may be why people who use phyto cannabinoids, phyto cannabinoids are cannabinoids found in plants. So phyto, right? Phyto cannabinoids, whether it's hemp or marijuana. People who use phyto cannabinoids theoretically eat more food. It stimulates appetite. And when we do studies, the small studies that we do have show that they do eat more food. But we also find that they're not fatter. And we also find that they have less instances of diabetes. So there may be some weight loss. Right. Subtle weight loss effects that come from. Which is going to get exaggerated by companies, I'm sure. Of course. Of course. Because of the energy regulation. Learning and memory. This is a, this is a big one. Your brain's ability to forget is an important part of your brain's ability to remember. If your brain doesn't forget really well, it actually makes it difficult for you to remember important things. And so this system, this is why if you do too much, like THC, it affects short-term memory. So if you smoke a shit ton of weed, this is a fact. So, you know, I know the pot heads are like, this is going to affect my memory. Shut up. Yes, it does. The studies are pretty conclusive. You start to talk about? Yeah. What did you say? It does affect short-term memory. But this is an important thing that the brain does. Other cannabinoids actually help the brain utilize, or helps the brain utilize its own natural cannabinoids better, though. So THC, not so much. CBD, CBG, CBC, some of the other cannabinoids found in hemp, especially in hemp, help the brain utilize its own natural cannabinoids a little bit better. This is why studies show that when people use a lot of THC, but also combine it with a lot of CBD or other phyto cannabinoids, the memory loss effects are nearly as profound. In fact, there was one study that shows that there were almost no memory loss effects. And it's because those cannabinoids help your body use its own cannabinoids. It doesn't cause the same types of problems. Emotion regulation, that's another one. Your cannabinoids help you regulate things like happiness, motivation. And this is also why if you overdo it on certain phyto cannabinoids like THC, eventually you lose motivation. But initially, you may actually gain it. You ever hear Stoner say, oh, if I have some weed or whatever, it motivates me or whatever. I get this from using- It's a tea, though. No, I actually get this consistently from using hemp oil, full spectrum hemp oil extract like from NET. So if I use that, I find I actually feel more motivation. Whereas with I use cannabis- I think THC is the one that can really cause problems if you overdo it. So it's pretty interesting stuff when you learn about this, that this is a very complex system. And the way it works in the brain and in the body is it acts like a regulator. So if your body is using its natural cannabinoids optimally, then you're going to get the right amount of forgetting or remembering. You're going to get the right amount of pain regulation, energy regulation. You get the right amount of motivation and mood. You're going to get the right amount of inflammation, all those things. So word of caution for people, utilizing a lot of THC, which has its own benefits, can actually cause problems. But using some of the other cannabinoids may actually enhance your body's ability to regulate and use these things. Sounds like you need to use a whole host of these cannabinoids, not just focus on the one. Now the THC does also have estrogenic effects, if you use chronic use. There may be in animal studies too much. I 100% believe this. I think so. I mean, that's just my aspect. When I was going through the coming off of testosterone, and I could feel how sensitive my hormone levels were, and I could feel how high my estrogen was, my gyno was constantly flaring up, I would notice whenever I had four days in a row of smoking, especially if I did a weekend where we were out doing something and I smoked all day. It was a day off somewhere or whatever. I would notice that it would flare up my gyno really bad. And then I would notice if I would stay away from it for a week or longer, it would completely suppress it. Dude, so studies are mixed on this. I did a lot of research on this and studies are mixed. Some studies show lowering of testosterone effects and possible estrogenic effects in humans. Other studies show there is no effects. Animal studies are consistent. Animal studies show that utilizing too much THC has estrogenic effects and testosterone-lowering effects in animals. I notice the same thing, Adam. If I go deep on cannabis, I feel estrogenic side effects. I don't get that from, again, the non-psychoactive cannabinoids. If I use lots of hemp, extract, it's only THC. Yeah, it's only when I smoke. So even my stoner friends could benefit from adding in the full spectrum products. Probably because cannabis has been bred to be- Well, you're the one that got me to start doing the one-to-one ratio. Yes, yes. Because what happens with the plant, the marijuana plant, is it's not like you could boost THC and it not affect the other cannabinoids. The more THC a marijuana plant has, the less of the other cannabinoids it has. It's like you're pulling from- You're isolating it. Well, it's like you're pulling from a bucket a number of 100. So you got to allocate some of it here and there. And the more you allocate to THC, the less you get at the other stuff. So because people like to smoke weed that makes them high and breeders have been breeding, you know, now when you go to the dispensary, every single strain is over 20%. Five years ago when I went to the dispensary, there would be like one strain that was over 20%. They're squeezing the shit out of them. And now they have less of these other cannabinoids. And I think that's a big mistake. And I think the therapeutic long-term kind of benefits for people just wanting to improve certain aspects of the health, they're going to get it from the non-psychoactive, because they don't get the side effects, right? They're going to get it from the- That's why I think the future of cannabinoid for health is not going to be CBD extract. It's going to be full-spectrum, you know, cannabinoid type extracts with no or very, very low THC. It's so funny because if you were to find it in nature 100 years ago, it wouldn't look like the way it looks today. No. It would be way more balanced. It's already naturally balanced. It would be way more balanced and you would see levels of like 9% to 12% THC. And the way people used it, so the way people smoked marijuana back then was they smoked the whole plant. So you get your weed, it would have the stem, it'd have the fucking- everything in there, the leaves and the bud. So when you're smoking it, it's like 9% THC. So it's funny because I've listened to like some of these old guys from the 70s and they're like, this is nothing like what we used to smoke back in the day, you know? When they say that, they're ridiculous. That stuff back in the days was nowhere near. There's like nothing in it. If you're comparing the high, that is, right? Like if you're comparing like the feeling of how strong it is, which is what most stoners or weed smokers are talking about when they talk about how amazing weed is, well, if it doesn't get stronger than what it is today. No. I mean, what it is today is- Not consistently. I'm sure there were strains back then that you'd have thought you could find that were high, but they were rare. And again, the way people smoked weed for thousands of years, you go back to China, you go to the Middle East, they didn't just smoke the bud, they smoked everything. And when you do that- And the stamina. Yeah, because the rest of the plant has as higher and other cannabinoids and lower in THC. Most of THC, the highest concentrations in the bud. So what do we do now? Right? We breathe the shit out of it to make it squeeze out hell of THC, and then we throw the leaves and the stems out and only smoke the bud, because that's what everybody wants. They want to get high now. No, I think that the future of therapeutic use is this full spectrum kind of use, unless you're trying to do like specific, you know, very, very pointed uses. High quality full spectrum. Anyway, another thing I read too was another, it was a great article on lifting weights, muscle, and longevity. I took actually took down some notes because I want to not miss any of this, but this article was really, really, it was interesting. And it was a little different than what I've read before. So this was published in medicine and science and sports and exercise. And they found that people with low muscle strength were more than twice as likely to have died during a follow-up period of the study than those with normal muscle strength. So this long study, they analyzed, you know, hundreds of thousands of people, control a lot of different factors. And people with low muscle strength double the rate of all cause mortality, double. They also found in this study that although muscle mass has a protective effect, if you're sick, let's say you're in the hospital and you, you know, you can't eat or whatever. Having a lot of muscle mass kind of just gives you a little bit of a, there's more of it to lose because when you're bedridden, you lose a lot of muscle. So muscle can protect you in that way. But what they found in these studies was that most of the, the health benefits that came from muscle wasn't from the mass of the muscle. It was all about the strength. It's all about being stronger. So they controlled for body weight, muscle mass, all that stuff. And they said, oh, it's mostly the strength. It's mostly the strength that gives. And if you think about it, that's the functional aspect of, you know, of muscle. And in this one, they found that there was a study done in Australia, the analyzer, they analyzed data from 80,000 adults in England and Scotland. And they found that those who reported doing any strength training at all. So even like a little bit were 23% less likely to die during the study period and 31% less to die of cancer. Wow. So did they, I mean, did they follow these people for 60 years or something? A long time. Wow. Yeah, a long time. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. And so now these are surveys. So it's hard to tease out and control, you know, because they're not super controlled. But this one just mirrors every other damn study that right now is coming out on strength. The cancer risk drop, I think, is phenomenal. Well, it just, I mean, it makes logical sense in terms of fragility. If I, if I'm like a super weak and like, it just feels like, you know, my immune system, everything else is like suppressed or I'm more susceptible to anything that sort of comes my way versus like, like strong, healthy, like everything, all the systems are working a lot better. Well, yeah, to your point, Justin, I think we always, we look at like, you know, the muscular system when we talk about strength training, but it's affecting a lot of other systems of the body. One systems down, then, you know, it pulls on the other ones. Right. So I think we tend to think, oh, lift weights, and we think just the aesthetics or the body, the outside, but there's so much that's happening on the inside that you're doing by training that way, just by pushing the heart rate like that, just by building muscle like that, speeding your metabolism. There's so many different positive things that you're doing internally that I'm sure helps. When you get stronger appropriately, and what I mean by appropriately is not, you know, pushing your strength through anabolic steroid use or through unhealthy practices, but when you get stronger, physically stronger appropriately, your body becomes stronger generally. Right. You know what I'm saying? More resilient. Yeah. When you become weaker physically, you become weaker generally, weaker immune system, weaker emotionally. You know how many times I would train female clients and the thing that they would comment about their strength training that they liked the most was that they just, they just felt more solid and I don't mean physically solid. They just felt confidence and just more solid or men or the male clients that I would train and how they would feel more balanced and solid in their emotional state. It's a general effect that you get. So strength, physical strength, contributes to general overall strength in all aspects and vice versa. So yeah. And that's what these studies are kind of showing. So anyway. Justin, what's going on with your rat infestation that you had going on? I mean, we haven't touched basis on that in a while. I haven't heard you say anything that that whole experiment with the cat thing kind of foiled. Oh yeah. Which where's your cat gone, dude? Hit the road, man. Like he just took off on us. Really? Yeah. I was kind of bummed about it because I thought it was a cool idea. Well, I knew nothing about him. I mean, he's a feral cat. He's like his status when we get too close. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't like a pet or you can't seem to hold on to pussy. Oh man. Such is life, right? It just shows it in so many levels. He's just not good with it. Thanks for adding salt to the mix there, Adam. I feel like Adam would have kept that. I don't know. These days. These days. These days. Slip it through the cracks right in front of your eyes, bro. That cat would have brought, wait, that cat would have brought more cats over. That's true. I don't know what it is. I got one pussy, now I got 10. This is so weird. There's a whole colony now, like meowing at me. So you lost your pussy? I lost my pussy. That sounds weird, but it's true. And so they're just, they're still there. The rats are still like all over the place. You have the secret in them at your house, bro. I mean, I've had measures where like I wasn't going to talk about this because of, you know, the potential PETA people, but hey, tough. Like, I mean, I'm shooting them now. You know, I'm going after them. What? What are you shooting them with? Because they won't die from the traps, dude. I got like this BB gun and I'm like, I'm 10. I thought he was like a gun gun. No, no, no. I think my neighbors would have a problem with that. But yeah, so I mean, I'm taking extreme measures here because there's just, I mean, they're all over the place. And so like what we found was we were trying to feed this cat to come back. They thought that we were feeding them. So they were like all kind of, you know, gathering together every time like I'd walk out of my house, they're all coming to see what they have for dinner tonight. You know, so I stopped, I stopped putting food there and all that. And so I went and we just went to get pumpkins with the kids. And so the first time my youngest, he, he went on this like field trip and got a pumpkin, brought it back. The rats ate it. They ate his pumpkin. What? Yeah. Like we go outside and it's just chewed through the entire thing and it rot like in front. So we just went again. And so that both my, my kids got like the big size pumpkin. I got like kind of a smaller one. And of course, like I go out and mine's the one that they attacked and they burrowed through chewed through the whole thing. And so anyways, like that was just a little more insult to the whole thing. Dude, can you make an explosive pumpkin? Yeah, I'm going to do something to it. I just sent a link over to the, the group thread and I don't, you got to go get one of these man because why not? It's a, it's a fully automatic CO2 BB gun. So it's like, you know, you get the full yeah, I had the pump one because I was like trying to also the whole safety thing with the kids. And I was like, Hey, you know, I was like showing them how to do it. But like, yeah, I'm ready to go. Doug show what time it is. You see the link that I just sent it over to you guys. So, so I'm going to go country on these. No, here's what I think you need to do this. Look at this. Look at that. The top left. Oh, sick. Oh, fuck. Yeah. How much is that one, Doug? What does that say there? $149. That's it, bro. You got that. You know what we should do that shit now. Get that. I'm going to post up in my backyard. Right. Yeah. You got to get yourself a Doug is what you need to do. Yeah, that's true. Doug's going ham out here. We have a mouse problem in here every once in a while and Doug has killed, I don't know, 12, 15. Yeah, probably about 15. Happily, by the way, happily. I mean, I'm not happy, but I'm not successful. I guess because dude, I tell you what, man, they do not like you, Doug. They are scared of the dog. You should like peanut butter. Oh yeah. Peanut butter, right? You should get a couple of them and stuff them like a scarecrow, you know, and sit and plot them around the studio. Chokey would like that. Let's not do that. Dude. Speaking of scared of shit this morning, Jessica, no, no, this was last night. I'm laying in bed and we're, you know, getting ready to watch a little TV before going to bed and Jessica like walks into the bathroom and fucking screams and runs away, runs away out of the bathroom. And so I'm like, is there a burglar in the shower? Like what the hell is going on? And she's like a spider. Oh my God, dude. What did the spider look like? Was it big enough to scream? I mean, I'll be honest with you, he's a decent sized spider, not that big, but I'm like, what are you running away for? Dude, that's ironic because that literally happened. I was sitting, taking a shit and then I got up and I'm like, you know, doing my thing. This is really graphic, but like, so I look over at the shower curtains right next to me, right? And I'm kind of brush into it and there's this huge spot on it and I look up and it was like one of those wolf spiders that was like cute. Yeah. It was like a couple inches big and I just froze like, whoa, you know, and Courtney was like, what, what, what? Like she freaks out because I don't follow that up with like, oh my God, there's a, I'm just like looking at it, you know, and like processing it and she comes in like she freaks out. And so I had to like smash the hell out of that, but it was like right next to my arm. Hold on a second. You took a shit. Yeah. So you sat in there. I was sitting in there and it was right next to me. Made the bathroom toxic like you do. It didn't die. And then you, it didn't die. Then you yell and Courtney will runs in there. She does. Regular cranks. She's like, oh, oh, double. Okay, all right. You got a handle. I'm out of here. Dude, you guys got me on that show, that series on HBO, Wretched Gemstones. Oh, finally, you all, finally, we were all in the same show. Dude, it's so good, right? Isn't that the best? Like such good satire. It's so not, but it's so is like, it's my favorite show to watch. It's so ridiculous. Yeah, it's over the top. It's not like, it's not incredibly written or amazing storyline behind it or what that was just fun. I just don't think there's anything been, there's nothing like it. Nobody has done something like this. And so, and I was like, oh, wow, I can't believe they're doing something. I just like that they make fun of these like, you know, that's a whole branch of that, that was like waiting to get made fun of, you know, the televangelists and then also the Joel Steens of the world and all these people that are like the mega church thing. Like it's, it nails it dude. HBO's got the best writers because I don't know how they make these people such despicable people that are likable. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like you like them. You want them to do, you want them to win even though they're bad. They're not good. You know, I mean, HBO does a great job with that. I'm on like the fifth episode or whatever. I told you guys that I've been, my parents definitely would not like that show. Yeah, I don't think my parents would like that show either. The HBO and showtime, I've been on that kick for a minute, man. Speaking of TV, this is my literally right now favorite time of the year. NBA started yesterday. You've got the world series going on right now. You've got hockey going on right now and you've got NFL going right now. It's the best time to Bermuda Triangle of awesome. Oh, it's the best time to watch. No, I'm with you on that Adam for sure. Triangle has three points. You named four. Well, fine. It's like the Bermuda square. No, technically it's a parallelogram. All right, dude. First question is from pure warrior 247. What's the difference between grass fed meat and wild game meat? Nothing. Well, thanks. Well, I mean, there's a lot different. There's a big difference between grass fed and grain or wild and grain, but grass fed and wild is pretty much the same thing. Well, here's the reason why it's different. Are they movable? Because grass fed meat that you buy that you, like, you know, like for example, butcher box delivers your door. It's grass fed beef. There isn't wild. Is there wild cows? That's what I'm saying. They get eaten by wolves, I would think. You imagine a cow in the wild? What a terrible animal. Name a single, name one animal that you could buy grass fed or you could buy wild pig. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's a good point. Yeah. Did you guys know if you take, it turns into a hairy hog? It does. Did you know that? Did you know if you took a domestic? And they're crazy right now in Texas. You guys know this. You can actually like fly a helicopter and shoot them with assault rifles. It's legal. You can also do it out of a hot air balloon. They let you do it out of a hot air balloon now. Is this all real? The true story. Yeah, dude. Because they have so many feral hogs. So why haven't we done this? I don't know. It sounds like an adventure to me. Why haven't we done this? Yeah, would you not want to do that? Have you ever gone hunting? I think we start there. But not like with a, like a semi-automatic gun after pigs. I mean, it's a little, that sounds a lot of fun. A little crazy, but maybe we start with the rats first. Start with your automatic. Start small. We'll get the, yeah. If you take a domestic pig and you put it out in the wild, it turns feral. Like the switch turns on and it actually becomes a crazy fucking, like a bore almost. Okay. So besides, besides the hog, what else animal could be grass-fed or wild? Oh, that we eat both? Yeah, that we eat both. We don't really. It's normally, you're normally comparing grass-fed to grain or wild to grain. Yeah. So here's the thing with wild game meat. And I guess bison would be the closest to beef, right? Bison is wild. Yeah. And that would be, you know, that would be about as close as you can get to cow at least. In fact, if you eat bison, it almost tastes the same. But wild meat is just got a healthier fatty acid profile. It's more nutrient dense, flavor-wise. Have you guys, you guys have heard the term something taste game? Yeah. There's a flavor that natural, I'm using the word natural, but I think you guys know what I'm talking about. There's a flavor that natural wild meat has that domesticated grain-fed meat doesn't have. Oh, there's a, there's a clear distinction between grain and wild or grain and grass, but I, and maybe there is, again, I don't have an example of a meat that I've I've had wild and I've also had only grass-fed because I think grass-fed has that, that has a different taste in comparison to grain-fed meat. It's a little bit, it's like, it's in between, it's not straight, it's not gaming, like you're eating venison, but it's not purely like the grain-fed like beef. It's just a hint of the gaminess. Yeah, like venison and elk, like I've had that before. And I like the taste. It's definitely way different than, than like any kind of a livestock animal. It's got a little bit of that game, a tiny bit of that game. Well, you have to explain for people to understand, because this was like, I remember the first time I fully understood this, and I didn't, this was until maybe six years ago, maybe five, six years ago, when I started looking for more grass-fed, is I didn't understand what that meant that it changed the fatty acid profile and why that was important to you. Because when you talk about somebody who is trying not to, you know, is fighting inflammation or you're trying to get healthier fats in your diet, it's kind of canceled out when you go and you get like grain-fed beef. A little bit, like if you, if you eat meat every once in a great while, it's not going to make a difference. You know what I mean? If you eat like, if you eat one steak or burger patty or whatever once a week or less, it's probably not going to make that huge of a difference. Now, there's an argument that says that you will see a difference over time. So let's say you eat red meat once a week, but you do it for 20 years or 30 years, then yeah, there may be this kind of cumulative effect, but especially if you eat a lot of meat. Like if you're like me, I eat red meat five to seven days a week, at least five to seven days a week. Some week, I go for weeks on end for seven days a week. Natural meats or wild or grass-fed meat, it has to, it's supposed to have a balanced fatty acid profile of six, three and nine. It's got a better, much better, much more balanced fatty acid profile. And it makes a difference when, it makes a big difference when you're consuming a lot of it. It's higher in CLA. CLA is a fatty acid that, I mean, bodybuilders have supplemented with CLA for like two decades. CLA is what they would refer to as the fat burning fat. And they find that diets that are higher in it, when the calories are equal, that they tend to be leaner and have more muscle. So this is why bodybuilders supplement. It doesn't work that way though. You don't just add CLA to your diet and get the effects. You have to replace other fatty acids with it. Well, I told you, I remember reading an article a few years back that they actually compete with each other in the cell. So if, you know, and I'll just use round numbers for the average person to kind of get this concept that if your cell could only hold a hundred fatty acid profiles in it, right? And they're made up of six, three and nine are getting in there. And you can't just throw more of something else on it. Right. And actually, six and nine will outdo or outperform the three. So if you're getting, like, if you're getting 75 and 75, you'll get all 75 of the six and nine. And then you'll only get 15 or right, right, 25 or 25 of the three. I failed math. That was bad. So that's, I know that's not the, I know that's not the most scientific way to explain it, but for the average listener to get an idea of the importance of that. And we know how important omega threes are. And that is something that we're always trying to search for most people at almost the, almost everybody gets recommended that supplement. It's just rare that people are getting enough omega three in their diet. And so when you're eating a meat that should already naturally have it in that, yeah, that would be great. Except for if you're always eating meat that is grain fed all the time, you're actually, it's, the profile's changed. It's higher on the six and nines, lower on the threes. So you're getting an abundance of the six and nines, which are not ideal. And you're getting less of the threes, which is more ideal. Balance is ideal. It's too much of one, not enough of another is not a good idea, especially when it's, when you're talking about six and nines. And some people, there are segments of the population that are very sensitive to this. So if they eat a lot of red meat that's great, that's grain fed, they'll see that their lipid profiles go crazy. And this is why when they reduce their red meat consumption, their lipid profiles look better. I would surmise that a lot of these people, rather than having to eliminate red meat, switch to grass fed, switch to grass, and I've seen this in clients before. Have you? Yes. Yeah. And they'll get a better fatty acid, they'll get a better lipid profile. Same thing for people that feel like, you know, inflammation or they feel bloated from eating meat a lot of times. And I find out that they're eating all grain fed meat and then have them try grass fed, you know, or switch over to like a bison or something. I notice a big difference. That's my, that's for me. So if I eat a lot of grain fed beef, let's say I'm trying to gain size. And so I'm adding a lot of meat into my diet because of the calories and all that stuff. I do notice an increase in inflammation when it's grass fed, I don't. This is my own personal experience. And that inflammation contributes to worse gut health for me at least. So I digest grass fed meat better when I'm eating high quantities. They're also higher in key micronutrients. Now again, it's not this dramatic massive difference, but it's enough of a difference to where again, if you consume a lot of red meat, if you consume it all the time, it will definitely make a difference for you to consume that meat as a high quality grass fed. Yeah, I assume that like even just having the chicken's graze around my property and everything. And in terms of like the color and what the yolk looks like and how rich it feels like the micronutrients are in comparison to something that was store bought. To me, it just, I mean, there's little things like that that if you start to kind of like put two and two together with like an animal that's out there like working for their food and getting it from like so many varied sources, like how much more diverse that would be nutrient wise. Yeah, now eating, always eating wild game meat is probably, for everybody's probably not possible. Yeah, it's not realistic because there's too many people and we would make animals instinctive. We can't all like, yeah, if we wanted to move in that direction, that wouldn't work out very well. No, we just have too many people. But factory farming with the feeding these animals grain all the time is not awesome. It's like you're, it's like the processed version of beef, like these animals are cramped. They're standing in their own poop. They're just eating grain. And when you have an unhealthy animal, the meat is just not, it's not as healthy. So it makes sense that you're not going to be as healthy eating that kind of meat grass fed. Now don't get me wrong. You could probably construct a factory farming model that looks identical to the grain fed model and throw grass at these animals, but oftentimes the way that they feed these cows is they roam, they eat foods that's more natural to their body. And so it's also more humane. It's also better for the environment. And they're good for the environment. They produce on ecology. They produce less methane when they eat grass versus when they eat. I think that's the gas that cows produce. Then when they produce, when they eat grain. So it's like if you eat a particular type of food that makes you gassy, grain fed beef is more gassy. So they produce more of those, you know, those byproducts. It's also better for the environment in terms of the ecology and the way that they're, you know, they have to take care of the land so that it's producing quality grass that the animals can eat. It's just better all the way around. And it is more expensive if you go to the store, you know, but, you know, we live in a pretty wealthy society. And I don't know of a better place to invest money than in your health. I really don't. You're gonna, there's almost nothing you'll get better return on. It's really not that more expensive when you go through someone like ButcherBox. That's true. That's one of the reasons why. And I know you referenced them that I think it's amazing what they do because when you look at what you're getting by having it shipped to your house and I know that grass fed is typically more expensive. It's really not that more expensive than me going down to the butcher and actually getting the meat there. I mean, we'll probably cover this in more detail down the road, but like how they got started was what I basically was doing with my wife. We would go in on a cow together with a couple families and buy, you know, straight from the source or like from a 4-H, you know, group that they raised it all humanely and went through that whole process and it was great. Especially when you guys factor in the things that they always did. Did you see what they're doing this month? What they're giving away? No. You know how every month they always have some cool like special for someone who gets on their subscription base? This month is a turkey, dude. A whole turkey, right? It's a whole turkey, right? I'm so doing this. Yeah, 10 to 14 pound turkey. Free. Yeah. Free for when you sign up with them. Yes. Oh, well, Thanksgiving's coming up. That makes sense. No, I know. Isn't that cool? Wow, that's a great... Yeah, that's a... If you factor in all the free shit that they give away every month, you're actually saving money with someone like them. Next question is from Tara Rickner. What's the point of chasing a pump? Does it promote more strength or muscle growth long-term? You know, what's funny is I love that some bodybuilding wisdom is bullshit, but a lot of it has got some truth. Now, the way they explain it, maybe not... Maybe the way they explain it isn't accurate, but the gist of it comes out to be true. And for a long time, bodybuilders, before any science supported what they said, for a long time, bodybuilders talked about how the pump was an important part of building muscle. Arnold talked about it famously in Pumping Iron. He says barely coming. He compared it to coming. And I remember the first time I saw that, I was like 13 years old. I was like, whoa, what does he mean? What the fuck is going on here? What is that? I've never had that kind of a workout. But anyway. But bodybuilders, a long time I've talked about the pump. Now, there's two mech... And here's the thing, science is supporting this, okay? There's two reasons why the pump contributes to muscle growth and strength. One is the conditions that produce the best pump also produce more muscle and more strength. So what I mean by that is if you're well rested, well hydrated, and you have good programming and a good diet, you're going to get better pumps in the gym. This is a fact. Hydration alone, like if you make sure you drink a lot of water throughout the day before your workout. I would argue that's one of the biggest things. Makes a huge difference. Diet is another one. If your carbohydrates are nil or your diet is just too low in calories, your pump suffers. I used to teach this all the time to people that were taking all these NO2 and all the pump like supplements out there. I'm like, try loading up more carbs. First, you have to know where you're at. Everybody needs to find a baseline first of where your typical carb day looks like, like how many grams of carbs you're eating in a day, and about how many you have normally consumed before your workout. And then the same thing goes for water. Double that one day before you go workout. And watch what happens. Double your water, double your carbs, go get your workout. You'll have the most massive pump you've ever had in your life. It'll shit on any supplement you've ever done. The pump boosting supplements are such almost all waste of money. It's like the argonine. Remember when people take tablets of argonine throughout the day? They call it NO booster or whatever? Well, 70% of your muscle belly is made up of water. It's made up of non-muscle fiber structures. There's all kinds of things in the muscle that make up the size of your muscle. They refer to that as the sarcoplasm within muscle. There's a debate about this, but I think the science supports the fact that the sarcoplasm in the muscle can actually increase through training the pump. So the more you can give your body a pump, the more sarcoplasm you have within a muscle, the larger the volume of it is. See, I feel my theory is that the more you train the pump like that, the more the body adapts to get a bigger pump. Because more sarcoplasm. Right. I don't know if that's the reason why it is or not, but for sure, I think there's value to it. But there's also some detriments to training this way all the time. Like anything. And this is what I, we talked a little bit with Brett Contreras the other day about this. I was saying that, man, I remember I used to train always chasing the pump and I never strength trained. And one of the things I noticed is I definitely got to a point where I trained my body to be able to get these great pumps. I mean, I would feel like I could air up in the gym and look like a total different human being. Now, mind you, I'm six, three, 200 or something pounds. So I'm a lot longer, taller and overall surface mass that I have than comparison to probably somebody who's five, six or five, eight. So air me all the way up. And of course, I'm going to look a lot bigger. But I would deflate all the way down. And I feel like, oh my God, I would look like somebody who didn't even really work out. And then I get in the gym and look like a monster. Then I started strength training. And when I, and when I, by strength, and I'm talking lifting three to five reps, I never did that before or even singles or doubles that just didn't exist to the first decade of training for me. And I started to build a different looking type of muscle in my body. And it's so hard for me to put words to it. But the best way that I can explain it is when I'm not in the gym and I'm not lifting, I look more muscular now because I strength trained. And I may not have as massive of the pumps as I was having before, because I have a nice even balance. But before I get these great pumps, I look amazing in the gym, but then I would get really flat looking. And I wouldn't look very muscular where when I started to incorporate strength training, now I had this denser kind of look to me. Yeah, there's, there's the pump contributes to muscle growth just like training for strength, which doesn't produce a good pump contributes to muscle growth. If you focus only on one, you're missing out on one of the factors. And I think that's what you're kind of communicating like if all you ever do is chase the pump, you're missing out on the type of training that doesn't typically produce a great pump, which is the, you know, one to five reps, long rest period, powerlifting style training. I would argue there's a lot of individual variants too here. Like there's probably, there's probably, yeah, there's probably people that and I think this is also part of the problem is somebody does one or the other, they respond really well, and then they kind of neglect the other one. You know, you have a somebody who's heavy into strength training and that's built lots of muscle for them and they look great. And so they're like, Oh, this is the answer for me. I always train this way. Or you have, you know, the bodybuilder type who follow the bodybuilder routine, gets the pumps, feels amazing, built muscle doing that. And so they neglect the other. And the truth is, both of them have to be. Yeah, that was probably me. I used to hate, I used to hate when my muscles would get like too big and tight and feel like I was like incapable of doing all these athletic moves. Like it was like inhibiting my performance. And so I like avoided a lot of those rep ranges and super setting and things like that, because it was just like, ah, like it felt like it was like deterring me from success. You're 100% right. I trained, I've trained rock climbers and motorcycle, what they call motocross racers. Oh yeah. And both of them, when they would hire me, I've trained several of them, both categories, when they come and hire me, one of the things that they would say is, I want to get stronger, but I want to reduce the, how easily I get a pump, because if you're rock climbing and your forearms get a pump, you're fucked. Yeah, you're done. If you're motor cost racing and your forearms get a pump, you're fucked. So you're absolutely right. And so training for a pump all the time, may not be great for certain. I noticed this in Jiu Jitsu and Judo. My hands start, if I'm, because you're gripping a lot, my forearms get pumped. It's like, that's it. They were, but in the gym, I freaking loved it. Oh yeah. You're looking at the mirror. But there's other reasons why the pump builds muscle. I mentioned the earlier one, that it's a signal that the, because the environment is right for a great pump, that environment is the same environment that you build better muscle. But there's also a second reason that the pump builds muscle. As the muscle becomes pumped and swells, it actually sends a signal to the body to build more muscle. It actually spikes protein synthesis within the muscle. So the pump is a, is definitely a great thing to look for and to pay attention to. I know when I'm getting a great pump, among other things, there's a lot of factors, but I know when I get a great pump, that means that the workout was probably good. That means my sleep was probably good. That means that things are probably working well. I know when my pump isn't good. Actually, in fact, having a tough time getting a pump is a better signal or more accurate signal than getting a pump. Like if I'm lifting weights and I'm not getting a great pump and I think everything's on point, I know like, okay, something's off. Something's not right. It's not working for me. Well, all of our programs too are, are phased this way, right? So you have a phase in every program, like the first phase is focused on strength. You're not really chasing the pump. It's, you know, you're, you're lifting low reps, heavy load, and that you're in that phase for three or four weeks. Well, eventually you make it to phase three, which is 100% in like all the programs, you're chasing a pump at that point. There's a lot of super sets in there. There's a lot of high reps and this is all going to cause that. So absolutely value to it. It's something that you, I think we would encourage somebody to do, but there's, but don't live there. Yeah, don't live there. Phase, phase in and out of it, just like we recommend a phase in and out of any sort of training modality. Next question is from S. Miller UK 24. What effect does consistent resistance training have on type one diabetics? Resistance training besides diet, when you compare it to other forms of exercise. Well, regulates insulin better, right? Resistance training is the best form of exercise to positively impact type one and type two diabetes because muscle is a very insulin sensitive tissue. I mean, the main, the main way your body stores glycogen, for example, is in the liver. The other way is in your muscle. And when you lift weights, you become far more sensitive to insulin and you become better at utilizing carbohydrates. It's way better than cardio. In fact, now cardio does a good, all exercise has a positive effect, but resistance training because of the increase in muscle mass has the best effect in my experience on both of these. So here's what happens with type one diabetics in my experience. And I'm not a doctor. This is just based off of my experience training clients or type one diabetics and working with their doctors. Now type one diabetics are people who don't make insulin. So they're the ones that have to inject insulin to the body. When they eat, you know, carbohydrates or whatever, they have to monitor their blood sugar. Typically they lose, they have to end up using less insulin is what ends up happening because their body becomes so much more sensitive to insulin that less insulin is needed to produce the same result. Now with type two diabetics, their blood sugar is just regulated amazingly with appropriate and proper resistance training. I don't know why resistance training is not the number one recommended form of exercise for all people with issues with insulin or blood sugar. It should be explain. I'm going to tell you how I used to explain it. I probably used to do it really bad. So you could probably help me out. But I used to try to explain it. And if you thought of your muscles as like these sponges and the bigger the sponge, the more, the more we're going to capture like carbohydrates and any sort of spillage or over that we do out of the sponge could throw our insulin levels off and make us have to take insulin or whatever. So if I could build more muscle or more sponges in my body, it gives me more flexibility and less likely of over spillage into my body that would cause me to have to take my insulin. That's a fair way that I would say explain it. It's obviously going to be a lot more complicated than that. That's a fair way. But no, studies show that more muscle mass is far better. It just improves insulin sensitivity quite a bit. Insulin is by the way one of the number one anabolic hormones in the body. A lot of people don't realize that it's extremely anabolic in the body. So it's like a, you know, it can be used to build muscle in the right context and all that stuff. But no muscle is very insulin sensitive. You know, because your tissue, the tissues of your body kind of, they are sensitive to specific hormones more so than others. Like for example, fat is an estrogen sensitive tissue. So lots and lots and lots of fat on your body actually causes the body to utilize its estrogen a little differently. It can even raise estrogen. So like if you look at young girls who are overweight, they get their periods much earlier than girls who are normal weight. Men with lots and lots of body fat, you'll see higher estrogen levels. Well, when it comes to muscle, you build muscle and you do it the right way. You're healthy with a good diet, not taking anabolic steroids and a lot of stuff. You're just, you're going to notice that you need less insulin. So if you're type one and here's something you want to pay attention to because this is important now and work with your doctor on this, tell your doctor, Hey, I'm going to start lifting weights. And the reason why this is important because your right amount of insulin will likely change. And you need to know this because too much insulin is not a good thing either. So whatever your normal amount is as you're lifting weights could very well become too much. So you want to pay attention to that and see, you know, what's happening with your body. So type two, just to go over that one in terms of like the difference between type one and type two, I know type two, so you lose sensitivity to insulin. Yeah. So your body's making insulin, but your body's not responding to it. Which all the more like reason to exercise. Both cases, resistance training is a phenomenal benefit. Yeah. Next question is from Farmer Pear. Are humans hardwired to be competitive? I definitely think so. To survive. All living beings are. It's so silly that people, you know why people are asking this question? Because competition has been portrayed negatively. Demonized, yeah. Yeah. Look, every decision you make in life, if so, if anyone's arguing this, oh, humans are competitive. This is bad for us. No. Every decision that you make in life is based off of a hierarchy. So if you go right or left, depending when you're driving your car, it's because right is better than left. You pick a shirt out of your drawer. It's because that shirt has a hierarchy. It's higher on the hierarchy than another shirt that you pick. Every time you eat, the names you gave your kids, you know, how you wipe your ass. I don't care what you do, you're making a decision and that decision is based off of a hierarchy of things and that means it's competitive. That means that some things are more valued than other things. It's just life. This is just the way it is. So because we value some things over other things, we are going to naturally be competitive. We're always trying to do things that we deem more valuable and we're also trying to become more valuable to the things that we deem important. Now, the bad side is when your people are competitive to a fault, when it's pathological, that of course is a problem when you identify with it and you can't handle. I think that the problem with competitiveness becomes when you have an issue with losing. I think that's where the problem is where you're so against losing that you cheat. I thought you were going to go the Darwinism way and talk about survival. That's sure. Absolutely. Because that's what came to my mind when I read this question. At one point, the better fisherman, the better hunter, the better runner, the better all these things was the more likely to survive. I think that was we naturally evolved in that place. Now, we're at a place now where everything seems to be plentiful and it's different. The same way that we probably chased after animals to get it to survive is the same way that I feel man does today for money and for security. It really is a very similar thing. It's just that it's this paper monetary thing that we can use to go purchase food and purchase things like that. The same competitive drive that drives us to be more successful and have more of it is probably the same drive that we've had in us since the beginning of time. When you make a product, you're competing with other people to provide more value to your consumer. People who think that's a bad thing are idiots because the reason why you have such amazing products is because a lot of people were competing to bring you the best and you picked whichever one you picked, so you actually rewarded the best competitor. Every time you buy something, every time you make a choice, you're rewarding the person who did the best job. There's nothing wrong with that. Can it be pathological? Absolutely. Absolutely. Everything is hardwired to be competitive. Everything's competing for... Now there's an argument that says that working together makes us more successful. Absolutely. Competition does that too. If you want to build a business, good luck doing it by yourself. You're going to need to work with a lot of people to cooperate so that you can compete with other groups of people who are cooperating. This is why I love free market so much. People don't realize this, but free markets, they combine the efforts of millions of people working together without even knowing each other. People from across the world, different religions, different belief systems. They don't even know each other. They're just working together without realizing it to produce the best goods and services and products. It's like that one book, I Am Pencil, or the video by Milton Friedman about a pencil. You look at a pencil and you break it down. There's not one single person on earth that makes a pencil. There's farmers that grow the rubber that makes the eraser or whatever. There's the graphite. There's the lead. There's the people who make the paint, and there's the people that produce the components that make the paint. All these people, if you really sat down and added up, will probably account to a million people. They don't know each other, but yet they've cooperated together to become competitive, to produce the best products. We're 100%. We're hardwired to be competitive because it works. It's always been there, always will be. Do you think it's dangerous and unhealthy, the direction that we, I felt like, I don't know, I haven't heard much of it as much as I did five, 10 years ago of the, every kid gets a trophy and there's no, is that still happening? I mean, are you guys still got your kids in sports? I don't, definitely not in my circle. Does it feel like it cooled off? Yeah, well, mainly because, yeah, I mean, there's some of it with the parents that like, if it's the first time the kids ever played a sport or whatever, and it's like, you know, but the kids themselves, they keep track. They keep track of how many goals were scored. They keep track of if they won or lost, you know, regardless of if you want to like make sure everybody's feelings are accounted for. This is a, this is a display of, you know, like adversity and like how you deal with that adversity is the whole lesson. And so to extract that and be like, everybody did well is bullshit. Oh, it's ridiculous. You know how many wonderful lessons are to teach your kids when they lose? Yeah, that's like, you need to lose. Otherwise you're a psychopath. There's some lessons to learn from winning too, like to be humble and to all that stuff, but there's more lessons in my opinion to learn from losing. You come back from a game with your kid and they get their asses kicked. You know, I would do this with my kids when they would compete, whether it be sports or other types of competitions and they lose. I would think to myself like, okay, this is a wonderful opportunity to communicate and help with the lessons that you learn from losing because you're going life. This is the way life is. Again, people make choices better on what's better than something else and you're going to not always win 100%. And if you don't learn that as a kid, you have to learn it as an, you know what it is. Okay. When a little kid first starts competing and they try their hardest and they lose, it's not uncommon for the kid to cry and scream and be pissed and throw a tantrum, right? So then they learn through time as a kid how to deal with losing. You can't keep doing that when you're 40 years old. You know how you imagine if you never taught that to a kid, if they never went through that and now they're of an adult and then they go on the business world and they don't get higher. I've seen some people like that. There's some adults out there. They never just lose their shit. They never learned to lose. You know what I mean? And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download our guides. They are all absolutely free. You can also find all of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump. Justin, you can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump. Adam