 Question is from healthy happy and free do you think someone who has suffered from an eating disorder should compete in bodybuilding? No terrible terrible terrible idea. I'll tell you what if you don't have an eating disorder It's like an alcoholic entering a drinking contest. Yeah, it's like definitely not a good idea You feel like this is pretty commonplace like a lot of people don't realize maybe that they have an eating disorder But they're like compelled to want to like present their physique well Think about it this way. Okay. Here's a sport and we're gonna embody when we say bodybuilding this covers bikini this covers Physique competitors this may even cover other types of Events or sports where you're presenting your your physical self maybe even pageants, okay? So here we are we're in a sport where you're being judged Almost or or entirely based off of how you look so that's number one You're going on a stage and getting judged against other people and how they look that's number two the requirements to do well and these kind of competitions are Extreme in their diet they're extreme in the sense that in order for you to achieve that kind of a look you have to In for all intents and purposes have a at least a 12 or 14 week period of disorder eating Okay, that's literally what it is for all intents and purposes if you're a look at that the way people ate pre-contest You most psychologists will look at and be like that's Disordered eating you're eating the same food every single day. You're cutting your calories super super low You're watching yourself in the mirror every day. You're you're weighing yourself. You're taking your body fat You're obsessing about your body That does not sound like an environment for somebody who just recovered from an eating disorder Eating disorder it would feed into it now. Here's the truth a lot of people with Disordered eating and body image issues it attracts them. Yeah seems to attract them hundred percent And I think it's because it gives them a reason and a purpose for the way that they obsess about their body It makes them it can make you feel better like I'm so obsessed about my body Let me compete and get validated hundred percent justifies it Yeah, exactly just just the same way that an alcoholic that enters a drinking contest Champion I'm doing it because it's a contest not because I'm an alcoholic. No, you have a fucking problem. I'm good at this Yeah, you have a fucking problem, and that's not a good idea. No, I mean, I think it's a I think it's a It's a borderline dangerous place for the average person no eating disorder Just a normal person who sees it and thinks it's a good idea. It's just it's not a good idea for most people It's a and this is where and I know there There's a lot of people in our space that you know, it's not a sport Because you're there's not a ball involved and we're not scoring points, right? But absolutely, it's an extreme sport You do extreme things that are not ideal and healthy for the body like any other sport, you know That's that's what defines really a sport is it's not something no sport is healthy for your body Doing anything repetitive or at extreme levels isn't ideal for longevity and health. So it's definitely already a Dangerous or extreme thing for a person that is got a good relationship with food it could take somebody who has a good relationship with food and Give them a eating disorder. So somebody who's already in that place or been in that place. No, it's definitely It's definitely not a place that they should they should be in whatsoever And I don't see anything good coming out of putting themselves through that No, I'd say if you if you're super self-aware and very secure with who you are Then you then you can compete and then you might be okay Otherwise what a what a terrible. I mean again you are think of all the value and importance are placing Solely on how you look there doesn't mean any performance component. So they didn't care how strong you are And I think that it's all about how you look It's no wonder that you know Caffeine plants and oil injections which aren't even an anabolic steroids. I'm building muscle You're just injecting oil into your muscles to make them look rounder It's no wonder that has permeated into the sport of of bodybuilding It's it's all the values about how you look none of is on anything else And when you place that when you're already a body obsessed your body obsessed to Train six days a week and whatever then on top of it You're gonna people are gonna tell you that that's a good thing. You look great. This is here's your money This is what it's all about or whatever. Here's your trophy. Boy, that's a what do they call that a loop Negative feedback. No positive feedback loop. It's like putting a speaker in front of a microphone You're gonna get that loud sound. Yeah, it's like bad, you know, you know body obsession Yeah, gonna intern to a sport where everybody's obsessed with body boy That'll blow it up and I feel like Instagram has just perpetuated this too like it's We're in we're in this time where it just seems to be extremely popular Both guys and girls if you're at all into fitness and you're into Instagram And you want to gain followers whether it be for popularity reasons or to try and build a business It just seems like the go-to move like, you know People follow people that have good physiques and they they look like they want to look and so Me getting on stage and competing and getting myself at a look that all these people desires I'm going to gain a bunch of followers and then I'm going to build a business I'm going to make all this money and I just think that there's a false perception around that that people don't don't realize I think that we're in this world. We think that oh someone has 50 000 followers So they must have a like a serious successful business, especially when those people Are presenting themselves as super successful in reality a lot of them really are not