 Next question is from AntsDopeLife. Can smoking weed impact gains? Sure, AntsDopeLife. Yeah, definitely can't. You know, I talked to a cannabinoid scientist recently, had a great conversation with her, and we went down a whole bunch of different paths with cannabinoids. These are the compounds that are found in marijuana plants and hemp plants. There are some potential health benefits that you can get from cannabinoids. If they improve your health, then they might help you with your gains, but I'm trying to think of all the people I know that smoke weed, how many of them have improved their health from smoking weed? I can think of one person out of, I don't know, 30, 40 people I know who smoke weed. Most people who smoke weed like to get high, and that kind of use is, yeah, it's going to take away from your gains. Cannabinoids, high dose, especially THC, probably negatively affect your anabolic hormones. They predictably lower testosterone levels or anabolic hormone levels, I should say, in animals. They can do that in humans too, especially at high doses. It can definitely, if it's used chronically, it can definitely reduce motivation, which that's not a great... Drive goes down. Yeah, that's not a great thing for working out. They can balance out inflammation if used at low doses, but just two or three hits from a joint is way higher than low doses. And at that point, you may be influencing inflammation in a negative way in terms of gains. So I don't think it's not something I'd say, go do this to improve your performance. I've heard long distance runners, though, like they do well with marijuana. Under the influence. Yeah, just during the... Yeah. Have you ever done a long run? No, I haven't. I've done mobility. I love mobility. Yeah. Under the influence. No, it's all... Because you trail off, dude. You trail off in your thoughts, and I mean, it's like... You know when you hit that, like when you're running, right? It takes about 10, 15 minutes or so to hit the runner's high. Yeah, then you hit that runner's high, and then if on top of that, if you got a cannabis high on top of that, like you just kind of drift off into your own thoughts. You know what they... Very therapeutic. And you know what they attribute the runner's high to? Natural cannabinoids that your body releases. That makes sense, right? Anandamide. I think that one's called 2AG, if I'm not mistaken. And here's something you can do. Okay, if you want to utilize cannabinoids for potential benefits, use hemp oils, full spectrum. Stay away from too much THC. Too much THC has got some negative effects on the brain. Use things like CBD and some of the other cannabinoids that are non-psychoactive. What those things tend to do is they tend to increase your body's own production of its natural cannabinoids. This is not a bad thing. So if you're going to notice any benefits from using cannabinoids, then you go in that direction. Not buying the weed at the dispensary that's 20% THC or smoking a joint with your buddy. That's probably going to be detrimental. So that's why, for me nowadays, I stick to things like NED, which is the full hemp oil extract, full spectrum. And that, I don't notice the negatives. If I were to have weed from the dispensary, I get that you can have fun with it and all that stuff, but it's negatives is what I know. Yeah, you have to be real careful. I mean, this is a conversation I have with my younger brother a lot. I was lucky that I didn't really even find cannabinoids. I mean, I had a bad experience with cannabis twice in my early 20s, and it wasn't even until I was like 30 that I really like smoked weed. And the way I look at it right now, so I like weed the same way, like a desperate housewife likes wine. And I look at it the same way. They're like, you got to watch out. You got to be careful of that. Like, am I smoking every single night? Is it something? I'm going to turn into a cougar. Am I dependent on this? Am I having the whole bottle type of deal? Like, and because there's so much positive messaging around right now with marijuana and the health benefits of CBD and yada, yada, yada. At the end of the day, it could turn into an addiction and an issue like anything else. So if it's getting in the way of you learning more and growing and spending time on your business or working better at your craft or being a good husband or being a good father or being a good son. If it's starting to bleed into those things and you have to be, only you know that, you have to be self-aware of that to make that decision. And most certainly can bleed into getting into your way of your gains. If, you know, getting high ends up happening and you don't go to the gym because of that, like it's an obvious issue. But if there's ways that you can find it to compliment your life and have balance, I think there's nothing wrong with it. Just like I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having the occasional glass of wine to enjoy that with their dinner. But very easily you can turn into somebody who has two or three glasses of wine every single night. And then at that point, when you start asking yourself, okay, is this more of an addiction and something that I rely on more than something that's actually helping me or complimenting or enhancing who I am. Yeah, and when they do studies on cannabis and performance, it clearly reduces power output and explosive performance. So for lifting weights, probably not a good idea. Not the best idea. I've done it before lifting weights. Terrible. It's not a great idea. It just doesn't, for me, it definitely doesn't improve performance. But maybe for long... Makes you more interested in it though. Maybe, for long, lower intensity, kind of long duration stamina based movements. Maybe the pain killing of facts, the fact that you're in this other state of mind, might help with that kind of stuff. But for lifting weights and for explosive power, definitely not a good idea. It doesn't make me stronger, for sure. I can't lift as heavy, you know, but I might be in the gym longer and I might focus more on squeezing and pumping the muscle. Or I might just lose my focus and start looking at articles. Yeah, or whatever walks by. Yeah.