 Next question is from Tehrita 11. If you've taken growth hormones or steroids in years past, do they still have an effect on your current muscle growth? Sure. Yes and no. So here's why yes, right? So muscle memory is a very real thing. So what that means is, let's say it takes you a year of good consistent resistance training and diet to gain, let's say 15 pounds of lean body mass and then you lose it the following year, you'll gain it back in a month or two, right? So it takes you a year to gain it the first time, but to gain it back, it only took a couple months. This is well documented. So if you take anabolic steroids, you can build more muscle and move past certain genetic limits. And then you go off to steroids, that muscle memory remains and you'll probably be able to build more muscle than if you never did those things in the first place. Now here's why the no. So I said yes and no. Here's the no part. And studies now show this. Men who use anabolic steroids in their youth oftentimes have impacted natural testosterone levels throughout their entire lives. Oftentimes it shows up in their 40s. So they'll use anabolic steroids in their 20s and then they'll go back to being natural and it takes three, four months to get their body to kind of regulate and go back and then their testosterone levels seem to be normal and then they have 40 and it's lower than it had been had they never done that. So they have the muscle memory but now they have the hormones working against them because now they have low testosterone. And there again, there's studies that show this that anabolic hormone results oftentimes in lower natural testosterone levels later in life. So muscle memory positive, natural hormone that levels negative. And what you'll find is people who use anabolic steroids in their youth oftentimes have to go on hormone replacement therapy later on in their life. So it's not as easy as people think. I think it's a bit of a trade-off and if you add those two factors up, I guess the answer is it depends. It depends on which one's more effective. Wouldn't it also factor like how much you were using back then and for how long and all that, depending on like how severe it's gonna impact you later on with that scenario? Yeah, definitely. I mean, if you use it for a year on and off, it's gonna have more of a negative impact later on than if you did it just for three months. So yeah, of course. But again, it's funny because there was one study in particular where it showed even doing a single common cycle of let's say 14 weeks or 12 weeks, they showed in the study to have a negative effect on testosterone levels later on in somebody. So which one of those is more impactful on you? I think it's more than that too. I think there's a negative psychological effect also. You take steroids for a couple of years consistently or even a year consistently and get used to what it feels like to train and eat on those. And then that was one of the hardest things for me coming off of steroids would be the afterwards. What after I come off is not feeling as strong, not having as much energy, not being able to eat a little bit out of bounds on your diet and it's still pack on muscle. And boy, that has a psychological effect. If you're used to grabbing the 120 pound dumbbells and now you're only grabbing the 90s, it's a harder to kind of get up for it in the morning to train like that consistently. I have great workouts versus now my workouts will be harder. So even though there might be some physiological benefits that are leftover from it, there's also some negative psychological benefits from taking it before and then not having it that can be detrimental too. In my experience, again, all these things matter. I think people just look at one factor and think, yeah, you're gonna have more muscle later because of muscle memory and that's shown and all that. But they don't consider all the other factors in the context. Look at my experience and I've known a lot of people obviously in the fitness space and I know a lot of people who've used anabolic steroids in their youth for relatively long periods of time. The most muscular fit 40, 50 year old people I know, if I had to compare the two categories of people who used steroids and went off versus people that were always natural, the natural people, the natural people tend to do better. I think it's because they develop better habits. They don't go through that period where they feel like crap are going off. Their testosterone hormone levels stay optimized for much longer. The people I know who used anabolic steroids in their youth and then went off and never went back on hormone replacement therapy, they tend to not do so well. Now there's also of course the category of guys who then go on hormone replacement therapy, which is a whole another conversation. So if you're listening to this or you're watching this and you're thinking, you know, I'm gonna do it to get the muscle memory effects that way later I could rebuild the muscle. You are not considering the whole context of the effects it's gonna have on your physical body and also on your psyche. And I think if you're doing it once or twice or doing it for a year to give you better muscle later on, it's probably not gonna work that way. You like the information in this clip, you guys are gonna love the information in this full episode. Make sure you subscribe and check it out.