 Next question is from demousse 134 can meditation help increase muscle gains? Yeah, absolutely. I can't okay. So why now is there a direct effect? Not necessarily, but let's examine what meditation has a profound effect on stress. Okay chronic stress chronic moderate load of moderate levels of stress Raise cortisol cortisol in the short term produces energy But in the long term eats away at muscle and promotes fat storage. It's a it's a stress hormone So it's burning energy, but also over time It's gonna make sure that you burn less calories become more efficient and store more calories as body fat because again It's a stress response stress lowers testosterone decreases insulin sensitivity Lowers growth hormone, of course it affects your sleep and the quality of sleep Do all of those things have negative effects? Uh or affect muscle gains at all. Absolutely. So if meditation improves your quality of life And reduces your stress then the effects are higher testosterone better insulin sensitivity lower Cortisol better sleep and therefore the results of that will be you'll build more muscle So there's obviously there's tons of science to support This that that this is a fact now What's time just an hour time off here about this other day that I meditation Yeah, that I want we actually were and I and because well just I was talking about how he just like it Is not my thing like I just I hate it But here's everybody thinks that you need to get in a quiet dark room and cross your legs close your eyes and Hum. Yeah, you know for Yeah, it's like You can you can walk and meditate it's just about being present you can fish and exactly It's about being super hyper focused and present in the moment in the now Not stressing out about months before or what's to come It's literally being in yourself in that moment and time and not allowing all these other distractions around you And so that can look different for many people And the practice of that is going it's going to do a lot more than just build muscle for you Building muscles is one of the the byproducts of that, but it's also got tremendous value outside of that Creating that space where you know, it's it's this quiet intentional You're in you're very present like for me like I was talking to Adam about this It was it was archery and and and so that was something where I'm out in nature. I'm by myself You know, I set up a target and I'm just kind of slowly mechanically going through the process of of you know Aiming and then now I'm looking at it for quite some time. I'm trying to really like slow my heart right down I'm breathing really slow. I'm hyper focusing on in one direction And it's just for me. It's a practice and so like I utilize that as breath control I utilize that as you know being very like hyper focused in one thing And uh, you know, everybody has their own way of kind of dealing with this and and there's again It's great to be able to kind of get to a place where you can you know, kind of get in that meditative like Space where you're anywhere. That's like that's the ideal way to do it But it for sure in terms of like countering stress And and bringing that down We've seen so much result from that and One of the clear examples of that was when I was up in stanford and I was watching uh, Corey Slashinger when he was still there before he went to the suns and he had like every one of his athletes Monitored with their stress and he was able to kind of look at all their levels like all day long And in in right programs that were very specific to What they needed based on what you know, what state of stress their their body was in and they got tremendous results And ironically the the suns are going to go all the way. There you go. I'm crazy. Our boy's killing it. No, I'll tell you It's one of the main reasons why I'm so consistent with working out for me. It's so meditative I literally and this is why you guys see me when I come in here Even when we're all working out oftentimes I'll put my headphones on It's not because I prefer the music in my headphones than to the in the gym It's it blocks everything else out. It puts me more in that meditative state 100% and it's It's the most meditative thing that I do. It makes me very present I oftentimes don't think about anything else So it's an hour of being present and it has profound effects on me mentally and psychologically Which I know Can you will benefit me? So and by the way, if you are on a health and fitness journey long enough You're gonna end up here. I'm telling you right now. You could focus all you want on nutrition You could focus on exercise Then maybe you'll look at sleep But at some point you're gonna get to this spiritual practice which meditation would fall under Because at some point you're gonna it's gonna lead you there because this actually is the root Of most health. It's the root because as we're present. Here's why I'm gonna I'll make I'll make sense of it When you understand presence and how to be present and you've kind of I don't want to say master that But it's something that's a part of your practice your diet is naturally more balanced Your workouts are naturally more balanced. Your sleep is much better It actually contributes to everything in ways that everything else doesn't necessarily contribute to everything else