 You are tuning in to the fastest growing fitness health and entertainment podcast on YouTube. This is Mind Pump. So in today's episode, we answered fitness and health questions that were asked by viewers just like you. By the way, subscribe to this channel, share it with your friends, set on your notifications. And by the way, if you're one of the first 30 people to leave a comment and we pick your comments, we have to pick one of those, you can win a free t-shirt. I'll show you that in just a second, what it looks like, but let's get into the episode. Let me give you the rundown. So we open up with our intro portion that's 44 minutes long. We start out by talking about Adam falling down the stairs, it's getting a little clumsy these days. We talk about the Super Bowls commercials. We talk about how China is making super monkeys. Good stuff over there in China. Oh my God. Yeah, doing crazy stuff. We're all doomed. Then we talk about how there's a bill in Nevada that could allow companies to create their own governments, that sounds cool. We talk about a study that talks about how human males have big wings and small wavos and what that means. We talk about the stock market. We debate about the economy. By the way, let us know in the comments who you think is right, me or Adam. We talk about why overweight people who are older might live longer. Talk about how ICE is overrated. And we mentioned how there's employees in Alabama who are trying to create a union at Amazon. Good luck. And then we talk about bone broth protein. Then we get into the questions. So the first question that we answered, this person wants to know if there's fat memory. We know it about muscle memory, but what about fat? Does fat remember? What does fat remember? I don't know. 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So basically the meat, I can't have anything. I was just going to say, you're not even a sandwich. You don't like to handle produce. Just give me a baloney of mayonnaise. What are you talking about, guys? How does that work? So this has been happening to me. And I don't know if it's because my house has so many stairs or I'm getting old or could be the marijuana too. So this has happened now three times. Door number one, two, or three, Joseph? Three times where I just missed the last step of the stairs. I'm just doing something else, whether it's on my phone or I'm looking somewhere else. And just I think I'm at the bottom and I'm not at the bottom yet. And I've done this now and it's like I've strained my hip, I've strained my knee, I've crashed on the floor. Yes, I'm counting them, dude. I don't know what's going on, but it just never happened to me in my life before where I fall on the steps. And I'm just miscalculating. And I've done it three times now since I've lived at this house. So normally you have good balance and awareness and now it seems to be. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Am I getting older and I'm losing my balance and coordination or am I just multitasking? You told the wrong guy, dude. I'm the WebMD guy. You're just distracted. I'm about to scare the shit out of you. I mean, does this happen to you guys? Nobody missed a step, Doug? I feel like Doug should be missing steps right now. That's early signs of. You went through a phase of that. I don't miss steps. Neurological degeneration. Is that what it is? It's one of the first steps. Yeah, I don't know. I hope you're not getting something. I don't know what's going on, man. Do you have any tingling anywhere? No tingling, although. Air loss? No. Oh, shit. It's already gone. Oh, no. It's already left. Oh, no. Combine those two. It means something bad. I've done that before. OK, I'm like, you guys are being bitter now. I thought I'm all alone on this. But I wasn't the athlete, though, so for me, it's normal. Yeah, maybe that's why he's bothering me. Up the stairs or down. No, it's coming down. It's coming down. So you step bigger than you think. Yeah, like, so the last one, I think I'm on the main floor. And I'm not. I'm on the step. And so you, whoa. And then I normally either fall or catch my stuff. I always jam up the stairs. And then sometimes I'll catch my toe on, like, the top one and I'll fall. That's because your toe's weird, though. That's because I have weird toes. Yeah, it points weird. Yeah, and you have heavy cakes, too. So I'm heavy. I'm trying to really get some energy behind my steps. That's just a lot of momentum. You've got to get local motion. Do you go up the stairs fast because you turn the lights off and the monster's there? She's not like that, dude. I told you guys, I have, like, this fear. What fear? That's always been there. That someone's going to reach out in the stairs. Don't you remember he said that? Yeah. Wait, someone's going to reach. He brought this up like a couple hundred episodes ago. My next-door neighbor was some of my stairs of my childhood stairs growing up. Like, it turns and it goes around the corner and you go up and it's open. And so I was just doing my thing, going up the stairs, going to go to the bathroom. Grabbed his ankle. Grabbed my leg. And like, from then on, I was scarred. That's terrifying. Yeah. So under the stairs? I imagine just like hairy arms. So under the stairs is open so someone could hide there and kill you. Yeah, exactly. Oh, forget it. Just take me down into the netherworld. I don't like that one. Yeah, I did the whole, when I was a kid, like you turn off the light and then you just jam up the stairs because monsters are not fast. That's true. And the covers will block them, apparently. They're slow and smelly. I told you guys about when I scared the crap out of my brother. So one of the beauties about being the older brother is that you are the terrorizer. You're never the one being terrorized. So my brother got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. And for whatever reason, I wasn't sleeping, I heard him. And then he went in the bathroom and I went in his room and went under his bed. Oh my god. How old? How old? Gosh, I was probably 35. 15, so he was like eight or whatever. So he's like a good age to scare. Yeah, that's it. And no, maybe 10, 9, something like that. So I'm under his bed. He gets in bed. And this is how bad I was. I waited a little bit. I was like, I'm going to doze off. And then I shook the shit out of it. Oh my god. Oh my god. Mom! Oh my god. Matt, come out. It's me. That's traumatizing. Yeah, have a good sleep. Do you watch? Now, I know you didn't watch the game. You watched the game, didn't you? Oh yeah, I watched the game. Did you have any favorite commercials or any that you didn't like? What was your thoughts on the commercials? Yeah, my favorite commercial had to be the Uber Eats with Wayne's World. And obviously, it just fit what I'm into, which is nostalgia. Totally. Yeah, they just nailed it with it. And it was fun. They just nailed it with it. It was fun to see Garth and Wayne back at it. And they incorporated Cardi B or whatever. But it was just interesting how they kind of wooed all that in. So they crushed. I think Uber Eats did great. My actual favorite was Cheetos. I thought Cheetos did the best. Oh yeah, that was good. Cheetos did. They brought back Shaggy. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. That was really, really good. And then the Scots fertilizer, I think it is. They did one. You know who did that? Scots fertilizer. That was the one. They had the guy from Office in there. They had John Travolta doing the TikTok with his daughter on the grass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really funny. It was really good. That was done by VanRMedia. Oh, really? Yeah, Gary Vee did that one. Did you see? Yeah, that was a good one. Did you see the Reddit ad? It was just a post. I read about it. But I missed it, because it must have been super short. It's really fast. And so now it's going on the internet. They're positioning themselves well as the little guy versus the big guy. Well, so Robinhood had a commercial as well. And it was all positive. I wonder if they just did that last second, because they knew that the Reddit was doing it. Well, that's why they did it. They did it knowing Robinhood was running it out. And they wanted to, you know, Reddit did it knowing that Robinhood was doing it in contrast. Yes, knowing they would be running it out. The problem is that Robinhood did like a full-on minute plus commercial. I remember that one. And the Reddit one, I didn't even remember. Yeah, because Robinhood pissed off a lot of people because they stopped them from trading. Right. You know what I mean? And they're like, you were supposed to be on our side. You were for the little guy. Yeah, so it's crazy. Kind of crazy what's going on. What do you think about it though? Do you think, I mean, do you fault Robinhood? Do you think that hurts Robinhood? Do you think they're fine? What's your thoughts on that? I think that it's, I think this is interesting. I think the internet has now given enough power because here's the deal. If you're a hedge fund manager, you're a millionaire, billionaire, and you're investing, you have a lot of power with your money because you're buying such large amounts of shares. But if you're an average person and you're throwing $1,000 or $2,000 or $5,000 or even $10,000, you really don't have an impact. But the internet now allows enough of these people to get together to where they can put a squeeze on these hedge funds, you know, and that's what they did. I just look at it as an awesome disruptor, you know? Yes. It's interesting to watch, but it's one of those things you think is almost inevitable because if people can gather together just like in any other industry we mentioned with the taxi industry, the hotel industry, like they've all been punched in the face hard. It makes me wonder now is looking at companies and thinking, okay, are these companies the kinds that these small-time investors will buy because they're cool? You know what I mean? Like GameStop, obviously, everybody's like, we're going to save GameStop. I mean, that's, let's be honest, that's a business model that's totally fair, right? But like Tesla, Tesla's, Elon, he plays to them, obviously plays to them. In fact, he bought Bitcoin, you see that? Tesla bought a shit ton of Bitcoin. It was like a billion or something. Yeah, and they went through the roof. Bitcoin's at $40,000 something. It was Ethereum, right? Is that what they bought? No, Bitcoin. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was Ethereum. No, and they're going to start accepting Bitcoin as payment. Wow. So their shares went through the big move. Not shares, but Bitcoin value went through the roof, which I sold them a while ago. It makes me so mad. And I didn't need to. I can't even get into mine, dude, right now. That's just a sore subject for me. You can stop. Yeah. I mean, I think I was the one that was on the Bitcoin train the most early on, right? How many chances you got left? Like two? You know, so we stopped, right? I stopped guessing, so that doesn't happen to me. But we have a ticket in to get to talk to them. Both Katrina and I were both locked out of our account. So now, luckily for me, again, it was like gambling money to me. So I never looked at it like I was heavily invested in there. But I mean, it's a good amount of money in there that I can't get my hands on now. I bought it like three plus years ago. Yeah, I think you bought it when it was 7,000. Yeah, I don't remember. Now it's like 43,000. Yeah, I don't remember what it was. Oh, that's beautiful. Hey, I got two articles. One is for you, Justin, and one is for you, Adam. Oh, okay. Yeah, both are really fascinating. Who wants to go first? Justin. All right, I'll do yours first, Justin. Hit me. So I'm going to read to you from this article, because you're going to flip out over this. You're hyping it up a lot. So this is in China. So they do really cool scientific experiments over there. They certainly do. I can't wait. Yeah. So team of Chinese scientists edited the human version of a gene called MCPH1 into macaques. These are monkeys. The new gene made the monkey's brains develop along a more human-like timeline. The gene-hacked monkeys had better reaction times and enhanced short-term memories compared to their unaltered peers. So they took monkey brains and made them more human, and then let's see what happened. What? How far are we into this? What do you mean? Like, is this like a week ago, a year ago? Oh, well, this was just published. I don't know when this happened, but I think it was recent. And of course, a lot of the scientific communities like. Planet of the Apes is one of my favorite movies. Bro, think about it. Like, if you're... Not when it's reality. You know, I don't want to live through that. Dude, the whole sci-fi movie plot where you have like half monkey, half human... I mean, they're gonna get the zookeepers first. They're not gonna get us first. I mean, I feel like we're okay. Like, I mean, did you do any bad things about monkeys before? Justin, are you okay? Not today. I mean, I was like a little punk as a kid, but I don't think I mess with any monkeys. Dude, if monkeys are as smart as humans, we're done because they're way stronger. You know what I mean? Monkey will keep you. I mean, that's if they want to be that way, right? I mean, that's assuming that they're just not gonna be cool and just be like, hey, let me out of the cages and roam around with you guys. You're assuming that they're just one that they're gonna be... Terratical, you know what I'm saying? We'd lose every sport. Imagine doing gymnastics against a monkey. Dude, wait till they start messing with like gorillas. I don't know, when the thumbs fuck them up, I feel like we... And gymnastics? Oh, okay, certain sports. Sure, yeah. I'm not talking about competing. Gym gymnastics, okay. They're not winning football, though, come on. So, wait a minute. I don't know, bro. I'm trying to wrap my brain... So, like, before that, it was like embryos and things they're messing with. No, they grew up. So, now they grew, like, they're real, like, live monkeys that act like humans. Yeah, and they're just smarter. They're way smarter than the others because they did a little too... What the fuck is going on? No, no, dude. Do we have footage or anything? How deep did you go down the rabbit hole? I just won an article. I know, right? What if you see the footage and it kind of looks like a human little bit? Right, that's what I want to see. I want to see what their behaviors are like. Starts talking a little bit. Monkey won. Let me hear mine. All right, I got one for you. What's mine? You made a... It's pretty bad, pretty bad. So, you made a... I don't know if I want to say a prediction, but you kind of speculated on this a while ago. So... Are you gonna confirm it for me? It might actually be happening. Get trying shit on it. No, no, no, no, no, dude. This is, you'll love this. Okay, let's hear it. So, this is a bill in Nevada that was put forth. It hasn't passed yet, but it's very interesting. The title of the article says, Nevada Bill would allow tech companies to create governments. So... Oh, bro. So, what they're doing is that in this bill, they're creating these like innovation zones, right? So, a big tech... And what they're trying to do is they're trying to track big tech companies. This is what I've been saying forever, with like at the Apple campus, they are gonna bring it at their own little ecosystem, dude. They'll have their doctors, their grocery stores, their own morning house. Yes, their own money. Everything. So, check this out, right? So, these are called innovation zones, and they're obviously to jumpstart the state's economy, which I think would work. I think if they did this, it would explode. So, the zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authorities as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts, and provide government services. Oh my God. Yeah, dude. So, you work for a company, and they're just like you said, right? You'd work for a company, and they'd be like, we could pay you... Right. In dollars. Exactly. Or, we could pay you an Apple dollar. Apple bucks. Yeah. So, we have the best doctor over here. We have the best bowling alley here. We have the best grocery store over here. So, it's up to you. Do you want to get paid? Exactly. $50,000 a year with the... Or 100,000 Apple bucks. Yes. Which is valued way more within this, whatever. Yes. Wow. Crazy, right? Wow. Now, it hasn't passed, but if it passes... So, how do you guys feel about it? Now that this prediction that I said is maybe a reality, are you... Do you think it's ridiculous? Do you think it's actually smart? Do you think it'd be good for the country? What do you think? I think it's... I think it'd be great. I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as they don't obviously supersede, and they would never do the supersede federal law or whatever. But could you imagine... As long as they don't have their own little army... I'm just going to say... Excuse me, what the hell, man? Are you guys thinking big term here? They're going to have their own, like, soldiers? Shit. Google goes to war with Amazon. Dude. I mean, why though? It's the apocalypse. Why? I mean, to me, it's completely voluntary that you come work there. You have access to it. I think they could even do it in a way where you have the option. You don't, like I said, you could either take the $100,000 salary where we pay you in U.S. dollars, and then you go pay for whatever you want, or you can take $50,000, you know, Apple dollars or whatever, or $200, however you figure it, right? You know what I'm saying? I think they could do it where you have an option. You're not forced to be in this bubble or whatever, but you have the option to do it. And you have to imagine that these private companies would manage their currency way better than the federal government. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? I don't force them inflating the shit out of their... Yeah, it all has to equate to something. There's some value behind it. Yeah, I could see it being very efficient. You know what I mean? Like you'd be like, man, it's weird. It cost me this much money for lunch outside of the campus, but in here it's $2, and I get the summation. It is interesting though, because you think about how much money, I wonder how much money they spend on corporate espionage, like type stuff where they're either trying to implant people to other companies, or they're also trying to like buff up their security. And like, dude. What? Did you watch way too much conservation? That already happens. No, espionage is going... Are you kidding me? That already happens. Yeah, bro. What are you talking about? Why do you think they're so protective over their secrets and shit? Dude. It's true. He's right, dude. I have family members that work in tech. Explain what your theory is here. Come on. Okay, so there's a company. They're doing these technological... Samsung. Right, right. They're doing these tech advancements. Their security to get in and see what they're doing is ridiculous. Oh, no, I know that. Okay, yeah, I agree with that. I mean, that's like when Katrina is like, when she worked for JJ Albany's, when they did anything for like construction, right? Like you're talking about moving dirt and building buildings. They had code names for what the building was. They all had to sign nondisclosures. If they took their phone out on the job fired instantly. Like, so yeah, no, I get that because, but that's just them. They're also doing stuff so the government can't come in. You know, like, I don't know. So I don't see that. I don't subscribe to you. What I know what it is, is that if you're Apple, you don't want Google being able to, someone from Google being able to learn whatever tech or whatever you're onto because it's a race for all them. That's as deep as it goes for me. I don't think it's like this crazy government conspiracy or this like... Well, think about how espionage going on. It's like, you're just trying to protect your... That's a lot more power now that they have like accessible to them. That's my point. Think about how brilliant this is, right? Because campuses are massive. These tech campuses are huge. Imagine if they buy in Nevada, the land is way less expensive than it is, you know, here in the Bay Area in California. So you buy a huge plot of land in the desert and you have your own transportation. I think this is... Come work here. You don't need a car. We don't need any, you don't need a grocery store. You don't need massage. You don't need doctors. We got everything for you. You never need to leave. Like that is, it'd be so efficient and also productive. It would be. Brilliant. And again, you have the option. So it's not like you got to go, you don't have to go work for Apple. You don't have to go work for Tesla. You have the option to go do that. Yeah, as long as there's competitors still out there. Well, and what will happen is it'll only make all the other companies have to compete with that, which is for the consumer for us that are living in this world. I think it just makes it a better place. I love the idea. Yeah. Your own schools, you know, all that stuff. That'd be great. And then, I mean, it would be hard. It would be hard to leave a place like that because you got everything taken care of. You probably create like hardcore employees because you get everything you want there. Talk about just, yeah, entrenching the court even more. Even a social, you know, the social scoring system that they have in China. You could totally do that. So, oh, you're a great employee at out. You haven't missed a single day. This costs 50% off. So I've told you guys that my niece is a recruiter for Facebook. She used to work at Google before and it's crazy how competitive her position is and like how many people are employed at those companies just to go get people. And the negotiating that happens just to get like somebody that's really, really high up at like Google to come over to Facebook, the amount of money and shares and perks and things that they get, this is just gonna take that to a whole another level. It's like, oh, well, you could, we'll get you your housing for free. It's gonna allow them to do a lot of cool stuff. I'm all for that. I think it's brilliant. I think it is very smart. I think it's very interesting. We'll see if the bill passes. Yeah. So when did it, when it just went on or what? What's a? I don't know exactly when, but it's in there. Wow, it's interesting. Yeah. So we'll see what happens. That's really interesting. Isn't that cool? Hey, I got, I read an article on, you know the theory that humans evolved being like hyper promiscuous, right? That we just had sex all the time. Yeah, sex at dawn. Yeah, sperm competition. And one of the arguments is that because the human male have such a large penis in relation to our size, that that's because it's designed to displace other semen to, you know, whatever. It's a plunger. So, yes. So there's actually a counter theory to this. So I did not know this, but we may have large penises compared to other primates, but we also have very small testicles compared. They have very large testicles. And the reason for that is we don't produce nearly as much, we don't produce nearly as much sperm as most primates do. So what does this say? Well, it says that we probably are, we've probably been somewhat monogamous for a very, very long time because when you're competing with sperm, it makes sense to produce a lot of sperm. Wait a second, wait a second. You just brought an article up just like a week or two ago that talked about one like droplet of semen is like fricking enough to impregnate like a thousand. Yeah, if you had just every sperm made it to the egg. Well, yeah, but I mean. That's not how it works. The way it works is obviously you produce X amount of sperm and it increases the odds if there's more sperm. Well, like a gorilla, way more sperm than you do. Way more, just all over this tongue. The oceans of it. So what that says is because they make much more, that's the competition. Whereas with human males, we don't produce nearly as much sperm as other primates. So do you subscribe? I don't subscribe to this. I believe that we were very promiscuous. I think that we've evolved though over time whether it be through our own morals or our religious morals or whatever that sacrifices worth it. I think that we were, I think we were fucking everything. Here's why I disagree with you. I'll disagree with you for two reasons. One, the sperm part that makes perfect sense. Here's the other part. Human babies are extremely dependent on humans, on adults. They're like, we give birth to fetuses, right? You've ever watched a chimpanzee baby. It's like automatically it can cling to mom's fur. It could do things for itself. Human babies are pretty much worth a long time. And so what this means is, but they're also attached to mom quite a bit. So the human male probably had to stick around a lot and take care of that baby. We were probably much more monogamous than promiscuous. Otherwise there's no way we would have survived because our babies would have died. What you're talking about, the argument is the tribe. Yeah, the tribe would take care of them. You are far less likely to take care of someone else's offspring. And this is just a fact. I disagree with that. If you have a trial, put us back however many years where there's 20 of us and there's not another 20 people for hundreds and thousands of miles. And it's just us all together. Are you kidding me? You're not looking out for your other partner friend that's freaking 10 feet away. For sure I am. You have a kid, we're taking care of it while the men go out and hunt and then the grandmother. Everybody's banging everybody. You assume it's kind of your kid. It's one of those things. This could be my kid. Kind of looks like me. Kind of looks like it. Well, I mean, in primates, this will be fine. So I read Sexadon, right? So the whole thing. And I think that there's a lot of it that I actually subscribe to. What I don't subscribe to is the leap from that to say that being promiscuous today is in our best interest or how we're supposed to be. So just because we did it before or that's how we originally evolved, what I don't subscribe to is how that community is now made a leap from that to that's how we're supposed to be. There's a lot of things that we did before that we don't do today that is we've learned from and we're better about. And that's one of those things. I agree with that. I agree with that. There's that, but then there's also, our best comparison is comparing ourselves to other primates because those are our closest relatives. And they find, again, the primates with larger testicles, more sperm, there's more of that going on with mating. Also, in comparison to other primates, the human penis is actually, and this is their words, extremely dull. This is where a quote, it does not have lumps, ridges, flanges, kinks, or any other exciting feature that other primates have. In primates, this lack of penis complexity is usually found in more monogamous species. So in other words, all of our... It's such a leap though right there. That sentence you just said is a leap. That's the closest, that's the best thing we have to a study that could possibly tell us. Of course, historically, all successful societies had usually some form of monogamy. At worst, it was where one man, multiple wives, although that's proven to be, usually causes war and battles and stuff like that. So that's what this showing, that's what these studies are saying. So all balls, no wing. Or all wing, no balls. All wing, no balls. I'd rather go all wing, no balls. Anyway, pretty cool stuff. Well, what is it, in Sex of Dawn, it's the type of monkey, it's the bonobos or whatever? Yes, but you did, okay. So they say that bonobos, they have so much sex or whatever. But you know when you observe bonobos in, when they're not in captivity, they don't behave that way. So they think it's because they're in captivity, this is how they relieve stress. When they're not in captivity, they act a little bit more. Wait till China gets ahold of them. We'll see what happens in the world. Yeah, man. Hey, look at it. It's smart. It's a bonobo. Bonobo's human monkeys. Bonobo's sluts. Bang and everything. Bonobo horse, we're screwed, man. Crushing the market. Oh man. Speaking of market, you see, I'm watching Bumble, right? That they're trying to get into the New York Stock Exchange right now. It's got a $6 billion valuation. So I think- Oh, that's something I would invest in. I know, I know, I'm interested. And I think they project it to open up at like 35 or 37. So the listeners are always asking about stocks, like keep an eye on that one. I think that's gonna be really interesting. There was another one too that I wanted to share. I can't remember what it was in the stock market. Have you been- I thought Roblox was, I don't know when they're supposed to come out, but they were gonna be like have an IPO or whatever. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, just watching the market, it's like you can't, it's kind of like you can't miss every day. New records. Everything's hitting right now. Yeah, I read the news. Unemployment is up. But the stock market is also like, oh, okay. Now I know, and strange. Off air, you and all of us are the most probably suspect or concerned about where the real estate and where the stock market is at and where you, I mean, the old saying, right? What goes up must come down, right? And that we could potentially be setting ourselves up for a massive crash. Do you still subscribe to that? Do you believe that we are heading towards a real estate and stock market huge plummet in the next couple of years? Well, all of the, if you were to look at the factors that contribute to a bubble, they're all there. Here's the problem. The problem is predicting when it's gonna, there's gonna be a market correction. And that's the hard part. But does it look like it? Well, yeah, it does. I mean, we just came out of a pandemic. Unemployed, you know, people are unemployed. So many people left the workforce permanently after that happened. Yeah, but at the same- Productions down. So at the same time though, okay. Here's the argument to that. The same time that you're talking about unemployment and people not making money and losing money, you've got the other side of people that we are Facebook record-breaking, Google record-breaking, Amazon record-breaking. There's tens of thousands, combined millions of employees that work for these companies that are crushing it right now, of where people have stock options in it that are CEOs and executives. So you've got the rich getting much richer, even though you have the, and so those people have the income to buy stock and buy real estate right now. So they're driving the market. It's still unstable. And you see a record number of first-time investors in the stock market right now. So a lot of that- Then you add in that, you add in Robinhood and then the stockpile and all these abilities to buy shares of shares. And that's very much bubble-like to see this excitement from new people don't know what's going on and they're putting their money in. And as far as these tech companies exploding, what you saw was a huge market transfer, okay? You saw all these mom and pop stores shut down and tech companies, which or other big companies that have the ability to operate under new restrictions because of COVID exploding. So you saw this huge transfer, right? Like Walmart did great, right? But if you have a mom and pop store, you're screwed. Well, that's why I think it's, you can't say that we're, you can't use the example, oh, we're coming out of this pandemic and we have all this unemployment and these people losing money because for the same amount of people that are losing that, there's a bunch of people that are gaining it and maybe more. Okay, well, what do you think would have happened? Had they not printed 40% for all dollars last year? Okay, so now that you're only supporting my argument now, okay? So when- That doesn't make the economy better. Well, I'm not saying it may, this isn't an argument on, do I think our economy is better or not? The argument is, do you think the stock market or the real estate market is going to take a dump? And I don't think so. So you think all the dollars don't do that? No, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to crash. Now you have all that money circulating, you have over 40% of the money that is in circulation today was printed in the last year, bro. That is crazy. So all of a sudden we're playing, all it really does is make the dollar less money or goods to be way more expensive. And that's included with stock real estate. So then why don't we just keep doing that? If there's no side effect to that, why don't we just keep doing that? So again, you're changing the argument right now. I'm not pro that. I'm not saying that we should keep doing that. I don't think it's a smart, it's a losing, it's a long-term losing battle, but it doesn't mean that it necessarily means we're going to crash or this is a bubble that's going to explode. It's a correction that'll happen at some point. So here's, okay, what's the correction look like? Does it look like an 08 correction or does it look like the typical every five to seven year correction? From all the people that I follow and subscribe to, the correction will be bigger than the previous one. There's a few different factors. You have a much larger, you have a huge student loan bubble. You have- Which they're talking about forgiving. Yeah, which, oh yeah, that'll be great. Again, I don't agree with it, okay? So that's where I'm gonna keep challenging though the things that you're saying because that's where we're heading. If I can get rid of it. No more student debt for everybody. No side effects to that, right? No, I mean, you know that- There's still a change of- Yeah, oh, nothing bad with that one. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm with you on the free, when we're talking about economics, I'm completely free market guy too. So I agree with you, but it doesn't mean that we're not in that, you know? We do not, people are making decisions that aren't based off of that, so- These manipulations and what's happening, it's a lot of malinvestment that's going on. There's a lot of inefficiencies and that results in a correction. At some point, there's going to be a market correction. Who knows, I wish I could predict when and I wish I could predict where. I don't know who could do that, but again, the people I subscribe to are saying, you know- I mean- And look, a good hedge against possible inflation or whatever tends to be assets, right? Because you have something physical. So even if it did drop, if the dollar did lose tons of value, probably still a good idea to own property. Even if it drops, you're better off than if you just had money in the bank. Right. You see what I'm saying? And that's where I am at. And that's what you say, you know, why not just keep doing that? Well, you don't keep doing that because then the dollar is worth two pennies in fucking 50 years or like that. So, but if you have land or you have stock in companies that are going to be around for 20, 30 years, to me, that's the best way to hedge against that. And I also think that the market correction, I mean, if you think it's going to be more than 08, I don't think it's going to be more than 08. I think we have different factors involved in what was going on in 08. I think it'll be a correction, but shit, if we stay on this trend that we're on right now and let's say the correction is at the end of this year, because we could just probably gonna print more money in fucking six months, the correction happens at the end of this year or 2022, it happens, it drops say 15%, which is crazy. Doesn't matter, this thing went up 45, you know? Yeah. You're still- Well, you know, in 08, when that happened, the amount of money that they printed, which they called quantitative easing back then, right? QE1, I think whatever, 1 or whatever, that pales a comparison to the amount of money that we're printing now. And listen, in free market economists correctly predicted when we first did that, oh, this will never stop. They're gonna keep doing this until everything explodes and they were right. We are continuing to do this, there is no end in sight and they're gonna keep doing it. They're not gonna stop, because if they stop, the pain starts to set in and there's no political incentive for politicians to do that. If you're in office, you don't wanna be the one responsible for the pain, so you keep inflating it, hope it doesn't blow up when you're still in office, pass it on to the next guy. Are you familiar with trickle-up economics? Yeah, but you know- It's what, no, I don't subscribe to it again. Don't get defensive, like I'm fucking and pro it. Everything he's throwing at me right now, it's like, girl, I'm with you on the fucking, believing in the free market and that's how we should let it be, but it's a commie. Yeah, so I don't say, he looked, every time I say it, he looks at me like, but what's his name? Andrew Wang, was that who's running for- Yeah. He tries to present that, that's what- Trickle-down, trickle-up. Those are political- Is that a problem? Is it? Yeah. It's not Wang. Oh, so. Freud, you set that up. Yeah, sorry. He's a- We were just talking about pedices, yeah. Andrew Wang. No, it's a trickle-up, trickle-down. These are all political terms. There is no such thing as trickle-down economics. It was a political talk, same thing with trickle-up. This is just their way of selling it, you know, what was their ideas? I mean, with Tesla buying that much Bitcoin, I mean, is that interesting at all in terms of like them trying to hedge and like go in that direction? Oh, Bitcoin, I mean, you've got big investment companies now that are starting to recommend people invest in Bitcoin. Why would they do that? Right. Well, I mean, back in that form of currency, I mean, does that have, I mean, it looks to me like that's gonna have a lot of power in the future. Well, imagine Tesla's in Reno already. So imagine your bill passes like you're saying and then Tesla uses a Bitcoin within its community. Forget having a Tesla coin or whatever like that, they'll just use the Bitcoin as that. I mean, that's, it's interesting as shit. It's very interesting. So I'm just hoping that will survive that whatever correction that'll end up happening. Save your money or invest it in assets is probably the smartest thing. Yeah, saving might not even be that smart. No, saving, yeah, who knows. Which kind of sucks. Yeah. Anyway, I'm gonna take a left turn here and talk again about health and fitness. So the study came out that a lot of people were sharing with me that showed that older adults with higher BMIs actually had better health than older adults with normal or lower BMIs. So in other words, you know, BMI body mass index. This is finally factoring in people with muscle. So here's, this is exactly what I was saying, right? So in this study, they showed that people who are normal weight and then gain some weight as they got older didn't become obese, but became a little overweight, had better health overall than people who maintain the ideal BMI as they got older or whose BMI went down. Now, of course, my retort to that is that it's muscle, right? And one of the worst things you could do as you're older, being super overweight, really bad, being underweight is almost worse. Being underweight oftentimes indicates high risk of injury, fragile illness, that kind of stuff. And this just goes, highlights again why I hate BMI so much because it doesn't mean much when it's just weight on the scale. It's just the easy way to sort of like farm people into a category like really quickly. Like, oh, you have like too high of numbers. So therefore you need to go through this clinic and take these pills. It's terrible because all three of us, I think are on the obese category of BMI. Oh yeah. Oh, at least don't worry. I got phone calls after I went in there. Bullshit. What? Yeah, I told you guys this. No, what happened? They're trying to get me in some obesity clinic. Wait, what? Yeah, bro. Who did? Kaiser, dude. No, they didn't. Bro, hey. The fucking doctor didn't look at me. No, he didn't. I swear, dude. You made yourself, and then you got a phone call from there. Trying to sign you up. I'm a trainer. I gotta follow them. Dude, I'll send you a nude right now. Yeah. It just goes, it was so blatantly obvious that they didn't even have any kind of, they didn't even look with their eyes and discern whether or not my health markers match what actually looked like. You know, I'm just thick, OK? I'm just got thick, but don't believe what Adam was just heavy on the bottom part. So what did they try to say to you, hey, we got these obesity classes. Oh, yeah, no, it was like one of those automated things. They're like, you know, sign up for this obesity clinic there, like in San Teresa, you know. You know, it'd be funny, though, is for you to actually go in there, like with a camera and stuff like that, and go through the whole process. I should have. It would be funny. Go in there and do some like Turkish getups and stuff. Yeah, can a fat person do this? Yeah, anyway. No, but I mean, it's, you know, with older people, too, you got to think about this. Even if it's a little more body fat than normal, you know, one of the things that kills older people is when they get injured or ill and they have to go to the hospital, their health declines tremendously. Having a little bit of extra weight is a little bit of it's like insurance. Yeah, because if you're really skinny or whatever, you go to the hospital, you're not eating much, you see the health decline tremendously. I seen this. I saw this with some of my older clients. Yeah, you know, I know you're the one that shares all the articles because you can remember. I don't remember where the hell I read this, but I did read that you're starting to see more and more like in sports teams that are getting away from the rice method. Oh, yeah. Something that I feel like that we have. Rest, ice, compression, elevation. Yes. Yeah, it's so ice in particular, it's funny, I was reading about the same thing a few days ago. Ice in particular constricts blood vessels and reduces blood flow. Actually slows down healing and recovery. Right. So you need the blood flow. You actually, if anything, you want more blood flow to happen. So you know the Juve light that we use? Yeah. That's a great tool to use for that because it's been shown because it does penetrate deeper than the skin. It causes increased blood flow. So if you put it on an injured area, you speed up recovery. Ice, not a good idea. Ice is good for pain relief. Well, yeah, I was going to say there's got to be like a difference between like an acute injury or something that's like immediately swallows up and you've got to try and prevent that from getting out of control. So it still makes sense, right, for some of your professional athlete. You've got, let's say, so many times in the NBA, you could run a game back to back, or at least a game within two days, right? And you swell up. Your knees swell up so bad from playing and they're this big, right? And so it limits your range of motion and you've got to run it back in two days. I sing to bring down the inflammation so you can move again. I see the value still at the professional level for that person, but the average person who's just looking for optimal recovery, it's not the most ideal thing. It actually gets in the way. Yeah, and you know what? That's a good point because short term, there's a different strategy than long term. Like, do I want to heal and recover better or do I need to feel better right now so I could play the sport? That's the same thing with like post workout ice baths. So like if you're doing double days, then it makes sense to do an ice bath after the first workout so that you can do the second workout. But if you're just a regular person and you work out five days a week and you're trying to build muscle and getting better shape, ice baths can actually reduce the muscle building signal that you may send from your workouts. Now ice baths on their own might have some other health benefits so you have to kind of weigh that out. But it'd be cool to see. I mean, you saw that Jude was in with the Niners training facility and I would love to see that happen, not just on the pro level but make its way into the high schools and they all start kind of adopting that instead. Well, so Jessica, so stretch marks are largely genetic, right? This is why Katrina was using it too. Oh yeah, so largely genetic. So if you're the kind of person that gets stretch marks then you're probably gonna get stretch marks when you're pregnant, okay? Now Jessica, she I thought, we both thought, oh, you might be the type to get stretch marks because as she went through puberty, she had a few and like if I were, I get stretch marks very easily. I got them just from working out. So it's in my genes also. But she used the juve light a few days a week while she was pregnant, zero. Not a single stretch mark she got from the pregnancy. Yeah, Katrina did too. And she went beyond her due date. So that's usually like, if you go beyond your due date, you're much more likely to get stretch marks. Yeah, do you guys see that transition, sorry? 6,000 employees that are trying to get together in Alabama to start a union with Amazon. Oh really? Yeah. Really all over the pandemic. What happened in the pandemic? You had a bunch of employees that, felt like they were being abused. I read the article too. Like originally I was like abused. What is it? It's like, they were being told that they were being, they got in trouble for not being six feet apart in areas that they could have been six feet apart if they had bosses that- Damn companies with rules. I know it was, when I read all the things that they had listed off for why they're trying to unionize, I was like, come on dude, this is like what was supposed to be so bad. Cause I don't know if you guys heard, there was a lot of like uproar about Amazon treating the employees like so bad and it was so terrible. And you had a bunch of people that were tweeting things. Like it's super intense to work there. Like the hours are crazy. Like you have to like get stuff out. Could we be, we are a bunch of pussies. Well, I mean, it is crazy. I mean, that's the general consensus I have. I have empathy if you have a job and it's hard. And you know, but you know, here's the deal. You can always quit and you can always try work. That's right. The beauty of living in a free place like we do is that you're choosing to work there. And yes, I understand sometimes circumstances are tough, but usually those circumstances are created by you. So if you're limited in your choices, it's usually because of your choices that you've made with your employment or your education or whatever. And I mean, just quit. If these people, and you know, there's nothing, I don't have a problem with unionizing so long as it's voluntary. Sometimes what they'll do is they'll then, the company will say, you have to join a union. And then you start to run into some issues. So I have no problem with that. But I mean, good luck, you know, trying to go get something. It'd be interesting to see how they handle that. Yeah, I'm curious. It just came out, so we'll see what happens. I don't know if they'll be successful or not. Hey, I wanted to talk about, because I know in the past we've talked about collagen protein and how if you're eating a very high protein diet, probably no additional benefit from having collagen protein, which I'll touch on. But I will say this, so we work with Paleo Valley, right? We've had their, we love their meat sticks. That's the thing that we eat the most from them. But they make a bone broth protein and we've had it in the back for a while. And I have not tried it for the longest time. Well, none of us do for that exact reason. I thought it was kind of a waste. Yeah, well, so a couple of things. One, it's even for me, I oftentimes miss that super high protein amount. It's just not easy, right? That means I would have to eat 180 grams of protein a day. It's not super easy for me to do that. And for most people to eat that amount of protein where it's 0.8 or one gram per pound consistently, most people miss it, let's just be honest. If you're missing it, then it does offer benefits for skin, hair, nail, that kind of stuff to supplement with something like bone broth protein or collagen protein. Okay, so my challenge or a question I have about that then is, but we know that way is better still. So if I have an option where I'm gonna, let's say I'm under, okay? Let's, I'm like you, 180, 200 grams is what I need. So why not just go away? Right, I'm 160, right? So I'm at 160 for the night. I'm like, oh shit, I need to get some extra protein in. I've got the option to go try a bone broth protein or I have my way, I'm better off getting my way. So here's, so in some cases, and I'd say in a lot of cases you're probably right, here's why a bone broth or collagen protein may be a benefit. Gut issue? By far the easiest protein you'll ever have to digest. It's literally, it's almost like you're drinking water. There's no nothing. It's just so easy on the gut. Much, much easier. Now their bone broth protein, unflavored. So when you mix it, it tastes kind of like bone broth, but it's very, very mild. There's no, nothing in it except for that. And you guys know me, I get any protein if I have too much powder, it can bother me. Not at all. So easiest I just- So it makes sense for that. But the whole pitch about it, you know, being great for your skin and hair and nails and all that stuff like that. If you're, if you, like let's, again, let's go back to that scenario. I don't have gut issues or not, like I'm not as intolerant to way like you are. I can do it at least once a day or whatever. So am I getting the same hair, skin, and nail benefit taking the way as I am with that? You probably would unless your amount is super high because of the high amounts of specific amino acids and bone broth and in collagen that you don't get in the way. Now, the reason why whey is so amazing for recovery and muscle building is because it's so high in the branched amino acids. Collagen and bone broth protein are not very high in branched amino acids, but they are very high in other amino acids like proline and some others that have those, those collagen boosting benefits. Now, I imagine to another benefit of the bone broth, I think, I don't know. I would think that it's cheaper. Is it cheaper? You know, that's a good question. We get it for free. Cause we're supposed to buy that sometimes, no. But I would imagine it's probably not super. Now there's a difference between bone broth protein and collagen protein. Bone broth protein contains collagen in it. Collagen protein is where they go through more processes to just get the collagen from it. So bone broth protein is the least processed form of that kind of protein. So it's just literally the bones broken down, boiled, whatever, dried, here's your protein. So it's very, very minimally processed type of protein. Interesting. First question is from Abel J. Flores. It's often said that muscles have memory. Can the same be said about fat cells? If so, what does that process look like in terms of time if a person has lost a significant amount of fat from a healthy nutrition and exercise lifestyle? You can kind of say this. That's a great question. It is a cool question. My fat remembers a lot. Well, I mean, so you can make the case for it because how you add fat cells. Yeah, so we should talk about that. So now first off, muscle memory is interesting, right? You build muscle, muscle fibers grow. You increase the amount of satellite cells that are there. Muscle then shrinks as you stop working out. Satellite cells don't go away. So to build back that muscle the second time around much faster. And it's actually quite crazy. It took me such a long time to get my body mass up to 200 pounds working out as a kid. Now if I stop working out, dip below 200 pounds, I work out, I'd be back up there within a couple of months. It took me a long, long, long time. Now with fat it's interesting, right? So you gain body fat, typically the fat cells grow. You lose fat, the fat cells shrink. The fat, the memory of the fat cells hasn't been proven like it is with muscle. However, think of the behaviors that we tend to get addicted to or that we tend to get used to when we gain body fat. When you lose fat, you change those behaviors. And this is when people talk about set point, like weight set point. When you lose weight, it's very hard to permanently change your behaviors. And so you tend to go back to your old behaviors and gain the fat. So in that case, I would say there's where the memory is. Now it's not the same as muscle memory, but I'd say that's where the memory is, is where if you've eaten a particular way, lived a particular way that makes you weigh 180 pounds, let's say, and then you lose 40 pounds, let's say you lose it within a few months. It's hard to stay to that new lifestyle because you live for so long the way you did before. So that's probably what's causing to gain the weight back again. Well, not only that, every time we gain the weight back, we also add fat cells and they don't disappear when you lose fat, they shrink. So the amount of total fat cells, and of course it's a lot more than 100, but pretend you have 100 and then you lean down, they shrink, that's what makes you lean down and look that way, right? But they're still there. Then you, let's say you fall off the wagon, you go back, you blow back up, you add 30 pounds. Now you add 20 more fat cells. Now you go, okay, I'm back on the wagon, you drop down again, you still have 120. Now this really, now there's studies that show that this happens, but really it won't so far. When you extreme diet. Yes, it's when you go, when you diet down real hard and then you go way opposite direction. Which don't, I would make the case that majority of people do. Well, so especially people who compete in like bodybuilding or bikini, because they'll do this 12 or 14 or 16 week diet. Even the crash diet thing. Yes, a lot of people that will lose 100 pounds because they're really just like starving themselves from these like fad things. Yeah, so to use the example of the competitor, you go 16 week diet, you get super shredded for your show, your bikini competition and then you're done with your competition and you gain back 20 or 30 pounds within a matter of weeks. By the way, I'm not making this up. I've seen this with my own eyes. People literally gain, women who hit the stage at 115 pounds gain 20 something pounds in a month or two, okay? So that fast weight gain, what your body does is it adds fat cells and the theory is that your body's trying to figure out a way to capture more of this energy, right? You dropped your calories, your metabolism probably crashed. Now you're eating like crazy. You're doing all the cheat meals and your body's like, I need to figure out a way to be more efficient at capturing all this energy because it aggressively responds because it thinks it's in famine. Yeah, so you add fat cells to your body. You do that enough times and this is why competitors will find that it's harder to get sharp for each show. They'll be like, oh man, it was so easy for me to get super ripped and look really good but now I've done five shows in the last year and each time it gets harder and harder. I don't know what's going on. You might be adding fat cells to your body and like Adam said, they probably don't go away. So you add a bunch of fat cells and now it's way harder to get lean the second time around and that's from that extreme cycle. So if you're listening and you do the cut in the bulk, but it really, it looks more like crash diet and then extreme bulk, you might be doing that to yourself. I think a majority of people do. I think it's more common than it is the other way where somebody is really good about, oh, they lost the weight and then they've slowly let weight come back. It comes back with a fear. Oh, it comes back with a fear because most people crash diet. Most people go on some radical new change. I'm gonna try the carnivore diet this month or I'm gonna try the vegan diet this month. They reduce calories significantly. They run it for a month, two months, maybe even three or longer. And then they go, fuck this. I'm going back to what I was doing before and when they go back to doing it before, it's always way more. It takes way more discipline. Totally. Yes. Yeah, that is such a mental block that a lot of people just, well, I just wanna go. Like, cause when you have that motivation, you wanna go and get to your destination as quick as possible. And so a lot of people just make these compromises and they get to that place but they didn't do it in a healthy way that's gonna last. I would make the case that there's less competitors this happens to than actual average people because at least some competitors are privy to this. Not all of them, no. But I mean, if you follow like Elaine Norton who has been touting this for a long time, you're aware of this and it's become more popular to, you know, reverse diet. And that reverse dieting concept has come from the competing world. That's not in the average. The average person does not talk about reverse dieting. The average person does not lean all the way out and then go and get shredded and go, oh, I need to slowly reverse back. No, and this is a psychological phenomenon, right? It's the all or nothing approach and it's like this, we've all experienced this, right? I'm on a diet and the diet says I can't eat carbs, let's just say. I'm on a keto diet, I can't eat carbs. So I follow that for a while, I lose weight because cutting my carbs has cut my calories and now I'm down 30 pounds. And then I go on a weekend or I go on a vacation and I say, you know what? I'm gonna have a little bit of carbs but now because I've had carbs, I'm off the diet, I'm off keto and then it's like the floodgates are open. It's not like I'm gonna have a little bit of carbs and then go back to where I was before. It's like I've already broken the rule. I've already stepped over the line. I might as well go nuts. So when I've trained people or who've done these types of diets, they almost never gain way back slow. It's always just quick weight gain. There's another part to that that this is what I have to talk to clients a lot is you gotta be very careful because the day after and even the couple days after all these extra calories don't seem to make a bad effect on your body, right? Not at first, right? Yeah, at first you go, holy shit, I drank last night and I had Jack in the box and I woke up and I look better today than I did yesterday. That happens, this happens, right? Because you've been on it and the science behind what's going on is your glycogen levels are so depleted. So your muscle bellies are that flat look. So you've sucked out all the carbohydrates in there because you're so low calorie. The water? And then all of a sudden, sodium goes up, carbs go up, calories go up. It fills all the muscle bellies up first before it gets over spilled into storing body fat. It actually fills you out. So then you actually look better for a day or two and that psychologically messes up a lot of clients because they go, oh shit, I can get away with this. And before you know it, they're two, three weeks deep into over consuming. Yeah, and even this oftentimes, especially with drinking, you'll drink and then the next day you'll wake up lighter. Yeah, dehydrated. Dehydrated. And by the way, your body doesn't just produce body fat on your body instantaneously. It takes like a week. So oftentimes the weight gain happens a few days later, but we look at the next day and we weigh ourselves on the scale. Totally. Next question is from Kim Kloefkorn. What are the benefits and disadvantages of different types of pull ups such as traditional pull ups, chin ups, wide grip, et cetera? Is one style superior? Yeah, so just because exercises have the same name like front squat, back squat, right? Split stance squat. Just because they're all considered kind of in that category of pull up, wide grip, closed grip, supinated grip, pronated grip, whatever, doesn't make them the same exercise at all. Now they're similar, but really think of them as different exercises. It's a different recruitment pattern. The muscles will be used differently. You're gonna use the lats more in one version versus another, the terrace major or minor more versus one other, biceps more one way versus the other. It's just different recruitment patterns, different exercises. And yes, they're similar because you're doing that pull up motion and you're working the muscles a similar way, but they are all very different. So they all have value. Now, here's what I tell people with pull ups is do the ones you have the best mobility for the most and then slowly practice the ones you have bad mobility with and get good at them. And typically what that looks like is for the average client is some kind of a maybe shoulder with grip, pronated or supinated grip, depending on the person, some people are better pronated, other people supinated, start there. And then you can start to play with the wider grips. The wider grips require more stability and more mobility. And for some people, takes a long time to be able to get to the point where you could do a wide grip pull up and then not kind of hurt your shoulders or your body. Well, my response to clients is to do the one that you do the least. If you never do neutral grip or you never do supinated grip, that's the one. That one has the greatest potential for change for you. If you do a overhand traditional grip all the time when you do pull ups, that has the least amount of potential for change. So if you're looking for change in your body, which is most people, most people are training to change their aesthetics one way or another, if you're looking for the greatest change, then the thing that you do the least or never do is going to provide that, that stimulus, because your body's not used to it. So it has the greatest potential for change. If you do the same stuff all the time. Now, if your goal is to get really good at pull ups and you have a competition with a friend on how many you can do, then sticking to one style is what's in your best interest. Some are great for if you're trying to really target a specific muscle group and get more lat activation or hit the biceps a little bit more, like more of like a narrow grip and supinated grip, something like that. I wanna focus a little bit more on my biceps. I'll tend to lean more in that direction, but yeah, to Adam's point, I do tend to wanna work on things that I'm not as efficient at because then my body will have to really work again, which then promotes a whole another cascade of benefits towards my other lifts. Yeah, I guess we can argue that a kind of a shoulder width grip is probably gonna work the lats more through a full range of motion because you get more of a stretch at the top. It's more of a direct pull on the body, but I've done wide grip and really felt it in my lats. From a functional standpoint, this is where people start to, this is where I have fun with the argument. It's like, okay, which pull-up is best for functional strength? Well, I would imagine, I would guess that it's probably some kind of a pronated grip pull-up because if I'm pulling myself up on a ledge, my hands are probably facing in that way. I can't think of a way where I would- Yeah, you usually can't scoop your hands behind something, like if it's just a random object, you usually have to like put your fingers over the top. Now most people are stronger with a supinated grip where the palms are facing back and that's just because there's a little bit more bicep. But I, for a while, I practice pronated and to the point now where I'm actually stronger pronated. So if I do a pull, if I'm doing any weighted pronated or neutral grip, I can lift more than I can see. Neutral grip is my favorite, I love that the most. But again, that's feeding my own itch. Like it's one of those things too. If I like having everything in tight too, I press and try and get like that spiral line with my overhead press and it's just one of those things it's another addition to that that complements it well. Well, that's gonna be the most advantageous for your shoulders, right? Your shoulders are in the most optimal position in a close kind of neutral grip. You go wide and stuff like that, you're a little more compromised. So it's back to Sal's original point, which is, if I'm talking to a client that is limited because of their shoulders or something like that, a wide pull-up is probably more danger- You gotta work your way there. Yeah, it's more dangerous than a neutral or a supinated type of grip. I think your shoulders are in a much more favorable position. Here's a little side note, pull-ups for low reps are phenomenal. I love it for sure. I mean, add weight around your weight, really good at them. Super, super underrated exercise that a lot of people don't do. Oh yeah, get five reps, put some weight around your waist, do five reps for pull-up, watch what happens to your back. A lot of people just don't even think about that. They think, oh, it's body weight, so I'll just keep doing reps. Try low rep pull-ups. Oh, that's super demanding. Next question is from Bauer Physical Culture. What do you think of functional bodybuilding programs? What is this now? It was a new name for everything. So I'm assuming what they mean is a bodybuilding kind of aesthetic-focused program that also places some emphasis on making you mobile and functional, because bodybuilding is- Oh, you mean mass performance? Yeah, yeah, yeah. With mass aesthetic? Yeah, mass performance. I mean, this is, when we wrote all the maps programs, I mean, here's a time, let's make this clear, because I know our audience, not everybody's on the private forum where we discuss things like this whole time. When we wrote all these programs, they weren't designed to like, you can't ever deviate from them. They're designed so you go through them. When we tell everybody, like follow it to a T at least one time. After you do that, if you, especially if you own multiple, they're very moldable and you can take things that you, you think your body needs more of from one program than the other. And an example of this, functional bodybuilding program, literally looks like, maps aesthetic is the programming, and instead of focus days, you run mobility days. And then you literally have functional bodybuilding right there. So the benefits of bodybuilding are, it's great for connecting to individual muscle groups, so mind the muscle connection. Nothing beats bodybuilding, right? It's very aesthetic focused, meaning you can sculpt and shape your body, kind of like a sculptor with bodybuilding type programs, more so than you can with other resistance training type workouts. Now, what are the drawbacks of training that way? You do lose some of that functional ability because you're so focused on sculpting the body from a visual standpoint, you don't focus as much on movement. And so you might not have the same functional ability as someone who goes to the gym and says, and say works out more like a strongman or more like an athlete. They're gonna just have more of that strength translate to the real world. Now, here's why I think for the average person, functional bodybuilding, I didn't even know that term existed, but let's just, you know, from what we're saying here, here's why I think functional bodybuilding is the best way for most people to work out. Number one, because most people want those aesthetic changes, but number two, the functional component prevents injury. And here's my argument. If you improve your mobility, you'll make the bodybuilding exercises more effective anyway, right? So if you're, you know, you're doing your barbell rows, your overhead presses and your barbell squats, and that's part of your bodybuilding routine does improving your range of motion, your mobility and those exercises make those exercises, build your shoulders, your back and your legs better? Absolutely. So functional bodybuilding is probably, if you just want to build your aesthetics, that's the way you should do it to really maximize the effect of those exercises. Part of me wonders if you could just categorize it as like full range of motion emphasis, like with like hypertrophy style training. So like it's just, I feel like some of that gets lost when you get really focused on machines and really trying to get the squeeze and the pump and you're not quite as focused on full body type, you know, compound lifts. Well, yeah, what's hard about that is that most bodybuilding exercises are sagittal plane. So we, you're not doing a lot of, and you're not doing a lot of unilateral work, you're not doing a lot of. Not a lot of rotating. Yeah, so that's, I mean, I love this. This is actually, okay? And kind of how I run most of the time, because I love bodybuilding training. I just, out of us three, I probably gravitate to that the most. So I typically do that, but I also have seen the tremendous benefit of training mobility because there was a while there where I was all about that, where all of my training looked more like mass performance and mobility focus or even prime and prime pro. So I like to do a hybrid. I love to train most of the time like a bodybuilder, but then I know the importance of integrating all these mobility type of drills in there and what it's done for me. So I would say this is exactly how I train right now. I just don't have a term for it. I just call it, you know, maps aesthetic meets our maps performance. Next question is from Paula Angela. What are your big four supplements? It's gonna be hard for Sal. Yeah. Narrow down to four. Can we make it big 20? This could be an hour conversation. No, you know, I'll tell you what. So here's the criteria that I would say for big four. These are the supplements that most people would benefit from. So that's where I would say it because I could make the argument that if you supplement for your needs, well then that's the most important, right? So if you lack vitamin D, vitamin D is gonna be in your big four. If you lack, you know, magnesium, magnesium is in your big four. So I'm gonna speak more generally to what most people will benefit from. And one of the number one supplements is gonna be creatine. Creatine is beneficial, not just for strength and performance. It's also beneficial for health, heart health, brain health, mitochondrial health. You're starting to see it now in wellness supplements. You're starting to see now that they're going, they're trying to supplement elderly with creatine because it prevents muscle wasting and improves cognitive function. So creatine has got to be one of those supplements. And it is, it's one of those supplements I recommend to everybody. Now I don't recommend the same dose for everybody. I think if you have a lot of muscle mass, you're taking, you know, closer to five grams a day. If you're my aunt and you don't really lift weights that much or even work out that much, then I'm telling you to take like one or two grams a day. But creatine's gotta be one of the tops. So that's your, well, I have three right away. So for me, it's a protein powder, creatine and vitamin D are the three that I most consistently use. And you make the point of like, you know, if you're lacking in that, obviously for whoever it is that, but I would make the case that I saw, I thought I saw a survey or study on the percentage of people that lack vitamin D. It's over 50%. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, so I mean, that's gonna be most people, right? So supplement, but of course, find out if you are before you take that advice. So vitamin D for me is a staple every day. Creatine right now I'm taking every single day and almost every day, I would say every other day or every couple of days I'm using whey. Now that is just because whey or I bounce between that and the vegan protein. So, but that is only because I'm not meal prepping right now and I'm not getting all my food or all my protein through whole foods. When I'm really, really good, I actually don't use protein powder that often, but it's just, I haven't been prepping like I used to prep. Yeah, you know, to the vitamin D, trip off this, right? So I've been supplementing with between five to 10,000 I use a vitamin D a day for a while. And I also take cod liver oil, which has got a decent amount of vitamin D in it. I went and got a blood test recently for vitamin D because I have one previously and I think, okay, I wanna test my vitamin D levels semi-regularly because I don't wanna take too much. It's a fat soluble vitamin and too much vitamin D is not good for you either. I went and got tested and my vitamin D was at 45, like right in the middle. And I supplement with five to 10,000 every single day. Yeah, that's crazy. It just goes to show you. Now, and I try to stay active, I try to, but here's the deal, I'm not outside that much. Most people aren't and I live in California. You live in a cold place, go get your vitamin D levels tested. Low vitamin D, it's like a hormone, screws up your hormone levels. Your immune system is shot. It ruins your, it could cause anxiety, sleep issues, lots of problems. I've had clients who've had just all these health issues got their vitamin D levels tested, started supplementing with vitamin D, gone all because it's a huge one. That's the number one for me is vitamin D. Vitamin D, I've tried with cod liver oil as well. And then, you know, whey protein and creatine. And then let's see, the last one was like a, it was a toss up probably between magnesium and zinc. Oh, for, yeah. Can we count your C. Alice or does that not count? No, that's not a supplement. That's not considered, yeah. That's prescription is the one that. It's essential for him, but. Oh, it's essential. Yeah. Here's the other one I'll add some kind of an omega-3 fatty acid. So, fish oil. I think fish oil has got a lot of value for the average person because our fatty acid intake tends to be pretty much off. It's got anti-inflammatory properties. It helps, you know, thin the blood. It's probably good for, now if you eat fish, do you need to take, you know, regularly, do you need to take fish oil? Probably not. Do you know by chance, so I used to have like a rule for how I would take my fish oil. And that was if I didn't get fish two to three times in the week, I would take fish oil. If I got it two, three times in that week, I wouldn't take it. Do you know what about, do you have any idea of like, like I don't know if that's correct. Like if I should be eating fish only once a week and that's plenty to get enough of fish oil in there? Or. You know what's interesting is that when you look at, and here's the problem with these studies is they're all, you know, survey based or whatever. It's hard because they're not controlled, but it seems to be the more fish you eat the better. So like the people that eat fish a lot seem to have better health than people who eat fish, you know, sometimes. And they seem to be better than people who eat fish rarely. So I would assume that fish oil, regular supplementation is probably a good idea. I can tell a difference when I take it. That's the one of the, one of the supplements I take all the time. I take cod liver oil and I take regular fish oil because cod liver oil is not as high in the, you know, DHA and EPA. So I take both. You know where I can see it more than anything is actually in my dogs. So whenever the dogs start to get skin issues or hair issues, You give them fish oil? I give them fish oil and within about three days it clears up their coat looks three times richer, their hair starts to grow back in those places. So, and it's quick. So I noticed it a lot faster than myself. Like for me, it's hard to tell if I'm like, oh, do I feel better? Do I notice those things? I don't know so much. It's hard. But I could definitely see it in the dogs. Like whenever that, I'm not disciplined enough to give it to them all the time. A lot of times I'll notice that I'll start to see something going on with their losing hair or something. And then I'll do that. And then I noticed. Now, what do you do? You open the capsules? Yeah, and I pour it on their dog food. Oh, they probably love that. Yeah, because they smell of fish, right? So they won't eat the pill by itself. But if I crack it open and then I pour it all over it, then they'll eat it. By the way, here's a little trick. Some people when they take fish oil, they don't like that. They'll kind of taste it afterwards or whatever. Here's a trick very easy, freeze them. Throw them in the freezer. Yep, take them frozen in there. You don't get that anymore. Oh, interesting. And it's probably better to do something to do with like lemon or something. Because I heard like citrus. Nah, they make some that are like lemon and flavor. Yeah, they make the ones. So I have one specifically for the dogs that are supposed to be bacon flavored, but they still smell like fish. Yeah, it's like a nasty burp, dude. It is nasty. And you probably a good idea to freeze them anyway, because it can go bad. Well, I was going to ask you. So if you freeze it, then it doesn't change how it ends up getting digested and then broken up. It just keeps it longer, I would think. Yeah, I would think it takes a lot longer. And again, fish oil, it's a food. So it'll go bad. So if you keep your fish oil in your cabinet and it's all the time, here's a test. Take one of your fish oils, poke it with a pin or something, smell it. If it smells. Rancid. Yes, then your fish oil is bad and you've got to buy a new one. I wonder how long does it stay good for then? A decent amount of time. But sometimes they'll package them and then have them in storage forever and then you get them shipped to your house. I hadn't even thought of that. And it's one of those supplements too that it does. It stays in my house a lot longer because I'm not taking it every single day. So you refrigerate them or freeze them. There's something you want to do. And then I agree with you guys on protein. Higher protein intake, it tends to make people leaner. It helps with appetite. Of course, it helps with muscle building. That's a fact. So I would say protein powder is one of those. And again, and just like you said, Adam, use it when you're not hitting your protein numbers. Of course, that being said, most people don't hit those. Well, that's how I am with all of those. The only one I'm not is creatine. Because creatine is really hard to get that additional like three to five, right? Because I think I forget how much steak pounds. Yeah, you have to eat the pounds of steak to make the go over the RDA, I think, of creatine, right? So that's not happening. So creatine, I'm probably the most consistent when I'm lifting and I'm deciding I'm gonna take it. But even the vitamin D, if we had a week where I have trips where I'm out on a boat in the lake like and I am in the sun for six, seven hours every single day, I'm not taking vitamin D during that time. So if there's times where I, or if I'm sure prepping my food and I'm hitting my protein intake, I'm not using my whey protein powder those times. If I have a week where I'm eating mostly fish all week long, I'm not taking it in there. So always the goal is to go after all this stuff through whole foods. But the reality is I would say those are probably, I agree, the big four. Here's a special mention. I'll throw one in just for a special mention is choline. Choline, there's some debate as to whether or not it should be an essential nutrient. A lot of people lack choline. Women in particular benefit from having some choline and it helps with brain function and general health. Where do you get choline naturally? Egg yolks are the best source. But if you don't eat those on a regular basis, supplementing with choline, and here's a great thing you could do. This is a fun combination. Take some choline with your coffee or your caffeine and throw a little thinning in there which we talk about all the time. Nice buzz. You get a great buzz doing that. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come find us on YouTube, Mind Pump podcast. Also, if you want free information, we have a library of free books that help you squat better, build your legs, your arms, help you burn body fat, lots of stuff. Go to mindpumpfree.com. None of them cost anything. So you can go on there and download all of them and just learn for free from America's favorite personal trainers. I just made that up. We're America's favorite personal trainers. Also, you can find us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump, Adam. Wrong. You can speculate on what's gonna happen in the future and how it's gonna suck. No, no, no. Don't do that. Just literally take the energy, it's just energy, and just shift it about three feet over here and start looking at how you can make this work for you. It's just,