 Question is from Lenka Kravarykova. I'd like to hear you guys talk about set point theory. It's been a while since we talked about this. Yeah, explain what it is first and then we can go into So the theory says that your body has a body weight set point that you know, it's most comfortable Yeah, it's set by your physiology your genetics. So let's say your set point is at 200 pounds Anything you do to move yourself outside of that 200 pound set point Is going to be very very difficult and then at some point your body will just fight you To bring you back to that whatever your set point is sounds like a convenient excuse to give us Yeah, here's where there's some truth to this. There's some truth to this There's there's definitely a and you know, we used to Define something like this with semantotypes right showing the endo ecto and mesomorph, which I know that's also Been kind of debunked but there is some truth that That your bone structure and physiology shows that you'll probably land somewhere around here, but That can be there's a huge range. Yeah, that you can and that can be completely manipulated and changed And is it hard for somebody to move north or south of that? Well, yeah, I mean, it's we had this kind of Good discussion slash debate the other day on the show About is it more difficult for somebody to build muscle or burn body fat? The truth is it's difficult to go outside What feels very natural and comfortable. There's a multitude of factors for sure In terms of that besides just you know, the genetics you're handed in in terms of like can I efficiently like burn fact Can I effectively? You know, it's easy for me to build muscle like there's going to be a lot of factors involved in that that You know, we still need to explore Here's what here's why I think the way that they explain it though is bullshit because The look at the average american for example the average american when controlled for height Is far heavier today than they were 60 years ago or 70 years ago Now our biology didn't change. It wasn't our genetics That caused us to gain Way more weight now. It was our lifestyle. It's chronic overeating. It was our lifestyle for decades There's definitely a range like like I don't think I could push my body above 220 pounds I don't think I could drop my body weight below 120 pounds, right? That's a hundred pound Weight range right there. I think a lot of people think that they think that they they use the theory of set point as Oh, you know, I'm I'm just you know, I'm let's say a guy who's Six foot who weighs 240 pounds doesn't look weight. So it's mostly body fat, you know, and he's like, oh, that's my My set point it's about 240. No, it's not. Yeah, that's not there. That's not don't blame that on your set point That's your lifestyle, right? Your lifestyle is what puts you at that at that at that body weight There's a huge range and we did not evolve Look, we did not evolve fast enough in the last 60 or 70 years to account for the Additional 50 60 pounds of body fat that a lot of people tend to store. I do think too like with epigenetics and all these things they're finding too with like passing on Like gut gut biome and all this kind of things that they do They're finding new things that are a contributing factor to this whole process that is interesting But it's again to your point I do think a lot of people use it as a crutch more than anything else Well, not only that but also speaking of the point of being a six foot, you know, three big The the bigger you are the bigger that ranges Yeah, more loot more lose more right if you're if you're a female and your mom and dad both were five foot three And you end up being four eleven or four foot one and about a hundred pounds You know your range is going to be something like 80 to 120 you kind of predict how you're going to look right 80 to 41 four foot one four eleven. I said, okay Yeah, you're going to be you're going to your range is going to be much smaller, right? You're going to be you're probably never going to see less than about 90 pounds And you'll probably never be more than about 130 in that range And if you're a six foot three guy who's you know to what you were saying it's out 240 or 280 You know your range is going to be way greater. It can be a hundred pounds. So it's all it's all relative Well, this set point theory a while ago and you'll see it happen again. I'm sure was used as a selling point So though a while ago this theory came out and it was not popularized because the theory got popular It was popularized because diet books and supplement companies came out and said we will change your body's set point That was what they're selling. That's what was their marketing that your body has a set point Now people this resonates with people because for a person Your lifestyle and your behaviors is set psychologically. It's set. You like to live a particular way It's hard to change your behaviors. Right. We know this. We're all high hard wired in our habits Right. So here's this marketer that's saying hey, we can change your set point You know how hard it is for you to lose any weight and you and it resonates like you're right It's so hard for me to go below 220. Yeah So and but wait a minute this supplement is going to change my set point So now naturally my body weight is going to be 30 pounds lighter. I'm going to buy that and I guarantee it'll happen again I guarantee that marketers will use that again But no it it absolutely doesn't work that way The reason why we feel like we have this hard set point is because your behaviors tend to be pretty hard set This is why it's hard for people to lose weight permanently because it's not that the weight loss is is hard. It's the behavior change It's so unfamiliar. Yeah, you don't want to get there. You don't change the way you live every single day That's a hard thing to do. So if you want to talk about like lifestyle set point theory Um, I'm I'm on board there all day long right talk about a physiological set point. It's not doesn't work Well, no, especially since that we can Change your metabolism like crazy. I mean it's free flowing already as it is how many clients have you guys taken on and You know, you get them and they're not gaining or losing and they're just kind of staying the same and their calorie intake Is 1,300 You know and six months a year later. They've been with me and I've got a meeting 2,700 calories I didn't I didn't change and they haven't gained weight or right I haven't changed much about their physiology other than adding a bunch of lean body mass on them and getting them to lift weights on a consistent basis and we've completely manipulated their metabolism and changed their new set point if their set point when they first got me was somewhere between 13 1300 to 1500 Well, now I think that same person and doubled it. I mean, that's a huge difference And this is why resistance training is is in my opinion the best form of exercise for fat loss long term because It's so hard to change how we eat. There's it's so ingrained in our behavior It's easier to ask somebody to lift weights three days a week than it is to ask somebody to totally change the nutrition So if we can speed up your metabolism just gives us more room and it means that you change your nutrition less You still probably got to change your nutrition I don't think I've ever worked with a client that I got them loose tons of weight And they didn't have to change anything about their nutrition Right, but you got to change it less than you would had you not sped up your metabolism Just a marketing gimmick