 Question is from t got soul. Do you really need to eat multiple times a day to see gains? I eat two big meals and one shake a day to meet my macros. Is that okay? I train five to six days a week. Yeah, so years ago, this was never a thing. People ate two or three times a day. It was just part of culture. Typically it was to break the day up type of deal. So you took a break at lunch and that's what you have that when the dinner was with your family. Breakfast was, some cultures didn't have any breakfast and other cultures they had some. And that was pretty much it for a long time. Then you had strength athletes who started to figure out that the more they ate, the stronger they would get and the more muscle they would build. Well, some of these guys were consuming four, five, 6,000 calories a day. That gets difficult to do with two or three meals. If you eat three meals and you're eating 6,000 calories, those are 2,000 calorie meals each time. It's a huge meal. It is and it's gonna bog you down and it just doesn't make sense. So what they would do is it would start to split these meals up and they found that it was easier to digest. It was easier on their bodies. And so rather than having three 2,000 calorie meals, maybe they had six 1,000 calorie meals or 700 calorie meals or whatever. But then, as this started happening, they would talk about it and people said, oh, that's the way that guy eats. So that's the way I need to eat as well to make gains. Supplement companies got a hold of this and thought, what a brilliant way to sell protein, powder, and meal replacement shakes. Because the average person is gonna hear the message that I need to eat five times a day, but the average person isn't gonna make five meals. So what they're gonna do is eat their normal two or three meals, throwing some shakes or some whatever. And it became this whole thing about eating small meals, burns more calories, builds more muscle. You need protein all day long or your muscles start to deteriorate or it speeds up your metabolism because of the thermic effect and all that stuff. Total, complete bullshit. At the end of the day, it's personal preference. Do you think that there's somewhat though of gotta be kind of a sweet spot though for each individual? Like, and why I'm saying this is, the digestive system is probably like every other system of the body and you could probably overdo it just like anything else. Just like we could overtax our muscular system by training too hard or our CNS, right? So if that's the case, like, if somebody who has like, let's say, a 2,500 calorie maintenance, like that's what they need to eat. And so that divided up over two big meals and a shake, probably not that big of a deal, 900 to 1,000 calories. It's not probably putting a ton of stress on the digestive system. But what do you think about someone who's trying to fit 5,000 or 4,000 calories in two or three meals and consuming 2,000 calories, especially if you're eating 2,000 calories of good calories. That's a lot of probably volume as far as food on the digestive system all at once. I would think especially if you have habits of doing that and then sitting down at a desk or not getting up and moving around, something, I mean, I just feel like common sense says that also would not be the most ideal way to eat too. Even if, and here's the thing that I know already because I've read the studies that what I'm saying is not supported. Because they'll measure things like building muscle. If we just measure, if you hit your macros, whether you hit it in one meal or six meals, the science shows that it doesn't make a difference. But then I wonder about like how healthy or how ideal is that for my digestive system if I'm stressing it with so much food in such a short period of time and would it be better like training, smaller doses more frequently as far as on the stress level? And is there, do you think there is a sweet spot for each individual? So yes, both extremes are not good. So eating too much at once, we've all done that. That's obviously not good. Eating too frequently has also been shown to increase inflammation in the body and cause digestive issues, especially in people who already have gut issues. So I'm like this. So when I'm having gut issues, eating less frequently way better than eating more frequently. More frequently really messes me up. But there's a limit, right? Sure, eating less frequently might be better for my gut but what if I do it so infrequently that I'm eating 5,000 calories in a meal or whatever? Well then that can definitely cause a problem. Now evolution, evolutionarily speaking, humans probably ate food when it was around which meant we probably ate a little bit here and there by finding it. So there's this edible plant, there's this whatever, but not much. But then when we did kill something we probably ate a lot of it. I don't know, we didn't have refrigerators and stuff like that. So we probably ate until we were full and then we ate again when we were full and then the meat was gone and now we probably went for long periods without food. This is why fasting shows that it's got some health benefits. But as far as what we were sold for so long and this to me was the biggest like shocking paradigm shattering moment for me in all of my fitness career. This was one of the first dominoes that fell and the reason why I call it a domino is because when I realized that this was false, you know the myth that you have to eat small meals throughout the day because it speeds up your metabolism. You have to, your muscles have to have protein all day long. Otherwise they'll start to cannibalize themselves. I believe that wholeheartedly for a long time. We were told that by courses that we took. We were told that by obviously supplement companies. Oh yeah, magazine, I always had protein bars in my pocket so I was so afraid that my muscle would fall off my body. I'd go to the gas station just to get a bar. Exactly, and I was so bought into this and I sold it so much to clients. You know I used to tell clients there's only one athlete that eats once a day. You know the sumo wrestler and look off that there. I used to have these like great presentations selling this to people for so I bought into it. When I finally started to look into the science which was years later, I started to think to myself like this doesn't sound right. Like are these guys full of shit? Then I started experimenting with my own diet and realized it was complete bullshit. And it was the first domino. Cause once that one fell, then I started to question all the what I thought were truths in the stuff that I did. And I started to realize that a lot of them weren't true. And at the end of the day it just boils down to this. It's personal preference. It's like what works great for you. And that's it. At the end of the day it's like food quality, calories and macros kind of make the most sense and don't eat too close to bedtime. And there's really not much else. I think figuring that out, like your own digestive needs, like what works best for you that's not gonna impede on your sleep. That's not gonna impede on your training and like detract you from energy and throughout the day. That's all the kind of shit you gotta figure out. And then whatever structure works best for that is what you apply.