In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach four Pump Heads via Zoom. 
 2116: How to Break Through a Deadlift Plateau, Ways to Maintain Progress When Circumstances
 Dramatically Cut Available Training Time, How to Judge if You Are Gaining Weight Too Quickly & More
 (Listener Live Coaching)
  Mind Pump Fit Tip: It’s healthier to be fat and have muscle, than to be skinny and have no
 muscle. (2:31)
  Cannabis for fat loss! (8:21)
  The older generation was built differently. (15:47)
  Some thoughts on the Supreme Court’s reversal of affirmative action. (23:02)
  The potential outcomes for transgender women in sports. (35:02)
  You never know what someone is going through. (41:13)
  An update on the current state of the economy and Mind Pump Rentals. (46:01)
  Sal updates the audience on more groundbreaking research in Ketamine therapy and busting
 the stigma surrounding it. (50:33)
  How protein powders can be valuable for vegans. (57:57)
  Shout out to Robert Oberst. (59:32)
  #ListenerLive question #1 – Do you have any tips on how to maintain as much of my progress as
 possible, when my overall activity and training volume decreased significantly? (1:01:25)
  #ListenerLive question #2 - Is there a way I can modify MAPs Powerlift to help push my deadlift,
 and what does that look like? (1:11:29)
  #ListenerLive question #3 – Is there a way to build more muscle, as a woman, to get past that
 bulky phase? (1:22:20)
  #ListenerLive question #4 - Did I gain weight too fast (roughly 18 pounds in 3 months), and
 should I decrease the number of calories I am eating? (1:35:30)
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It's healthier to be fat and have muscle than it is to be skinny and not have muscle.

Now I know this is a generalization, but it is true, generally speaking, to be fat with muscle than it is to be skinny with no muscle.

I was gonna crop it and be like, there goes Justin again, putting his face on my body.

I actually screenshot it, cropped it, and then never got around to post again And then I heard you're right.

I had another 1 of my asshole friends like asked me if I was on trend

You can't win are you fat or you're so buff that you must be doing

1, you know, you see sometimes these power lifters that have these big bellies and people are like, oh, power lifters aren't healthy.

Look at their big old beer guts that they have and stuff like that.

And then you also have people that carry extra body fat on them just genetically seem to have a higher body fat percentage, but then can do really athletic things.

And so it's not as simple as like, oh, just cause you look ripped or you look fit that you're fit and healthy.

You can actually carry a higher body fat percentage and still be much healthier than what we would call back in the days, the skinny fat person.

Yeah, so, okay, so when I was doing research for the resistance training revolution, I was blown away by how protective muscle by itself was.

Like, they have studies on obese individuals who lost no weight during the study.

All they did was gain a little bit of muscle.

And you saw significant improvements in things like insulin sensitivity.

Because muscle's so metabolically active, it tends to balance out hormones, it improves insulin sensitivity, muscle is anti-inflammatory in the body.

Now yes, body fat itself by itself is also a risk factor, but muscle is so protective that, and of course we're not talking the extremes.

You brought up the example of power lifters.

So people are like, oh, but power lifters, of course, there's extremes with sports.

So power lifters tend to be on the extreme end as well.

I'm talking generally speaking, if you had 2 twins and 1 person had very little muscle but was also skinny, the other person had a lot of muscle but had higher than what would be considered normal body fat, the person with more muscle will probably be healthier.

First of all, muscle's mobile, it improves mobility, it decreases inflammation, improves insulin sensitivity.

Little muscle is very unhealthy on the body.

The most unhealthy population are people with little muscle and lots of body fat.

So what's my point with this is, you know, working out, getting fit and getting strong, even if you don't get leaner, although that contributes to getting leaner, you have significantly improved your health just because you built some muscle.

Well, this also like coincides and goes right along with like our recommended advice.

A lot of times in seeking muscle building as you're before even you're trying to lose weight so you're trying to actually like physically change your composition by adding more muscle to your body which is more protective have all those qualities you had mentioned but then long term is a better strategy on top of that for then getting leaner.

I mean, when you also go to, you're also not including the things that could adversely happen if you all of a sudden cut calories and boost activity.

So, you know, it's crazy because I think I started doing that well before I fully understood the science behind it.

I just, through practice, I just realized it.

I was like, wow, this seems to be a better strategy when I focus my clients on adding healthy foods, getting strong and lifting weights and not being concerned about the scale, even when they come in and say, Adam, I need to lose 100 pounds.

I did the same thing, but it was for different reasons.

I did it because when a client came to see me 2 or 3 days a week, I knew I could at least train them right.

The diet part was always hard because I'm not around when you're eating 7 days a week.

So I would always tackle the weight loss later.

when I say, look, at least you're here now, I'm going to train you.

Let's just focus on getting you stronger.

Let's build some discipline and consistency there.

And little did I know that that was actually the best approach anyway.

Because of course, more muscle speeds up the metabolism, improves your hormone profile, improves insulin sensitivity.

It makes the fat loss easier, I should say.

And so much more of a catalyst for all those other beneficial effects.

People don't understand this, especially as you age.

And as you get older, look, there's a, there's, there's older, there's a lot of elderly people who are skinny and have terrible mobility cause they have no strength and no balance.

Uh, versus someone who's older who might be a little overweight.

So someone watches like, well, yeah, if you're 500 pounds with muscle, that's not good.

I'm not talking about the extremes and speaking generally, but if you're, let's say, 20 pounds overweight, but you have muscle and mobility, you can move, you're strong, of course, you're going to be healthier.

By the way, the blood markers and the tests you'll get at the doctor will show this.

If you take somebody and you get them just to build a little muscle, you'll see these improvements.

Typically, more improvements with a little bit of muscle gain than you will with a little more fat loss.

it's just something that nobody talks about that needs to be discussed.

We, you know, when we get in here, we have the, I look up at the TV screen, I can see the notes that each of us have put up there for Doug.

And a lot of times like I'll read and see, and I'm like, oh, okay, I know that's Justin, or I know where that's coming from.

Sal, a lot of times, handles the partnerships and sponsors that we have, and so I'll see a snippet, and I'm like, oh, I know where Sal's going.

Like, I'm so intrigued by where you're going with this.

There's this really weird paradoxical thing that they keep finding in studies.

So they find that people that consume or use marijuana on a semi-regular basis, consistently in the studies that they do, have lower BMIs.

Which is ironic if you're a weed smoker, like I have been, and you get the munchies and stuff.

Like you would think that it would be the opposite.

Anybody who's, and that's 1 of the ways that I actually mitigate, well like weight gain or body fat is like I reduce my weed consumption at night or post dinner because I know that that causes me to eat and munch.

So, and I'm familiar with a lot of these studies.

First of all, again, the studies are consistent on this.

There's human studies that show this as well.

It's paradoxical again because everybody knows that weed or cannabis is supposed to make you eat more.

Okay, This is how interesting the data is.

Pharmaceutical companies right now, right now there are several pharmaceutical companies that have drugs in their pipeline, their development pipeline that are cannabinoid based.

Okay, so cannabinoids are the class of molecules that THC falls under, CBD falls under, all the cannabinoids found in the hemp plant or the marijuana plant fall under.

There are currently drugs, like I said, there's several pharmaceutical companies right now who are researching cannabinoid-based drugs for weight loss and diabetes.

Cannabinoids seem to, in many cases, improve insulin sensitivity.

And the CB1 receptor, which is 1 of the cannabinoid receptors, So there's 2 of them that we know of.

The CB1 receptor affects metabolism and the data is showing that it may speed up metabolism.

In other words, activating this receptor may actually teach your body to burn more calories.

So, And again, pharmaceutical companies don't pursue something unless it's because, I mean, you know how much money it costs to take a drug from conception to market?

So NED and weight loss, obviously it's kind of tongue in cheek because Ned is a hemp oil product that's got full spectrum cannabinoids.

The data is very clear on things like inflammation, euphoria, sleep.

And the reason why I'm bringing it up is we're probably going to see, at some point in the future, weight loss type products that are cannabinoid based.

Because again, these studies keep coming out.

So that's the main 1 they attributed most of the fat loss to?

They think because it does affect metabolism.

And activating it seems to speed up the metabolism.

But the insulin sensitivity 1 is a big 1.

I know when I invested years ago, this company doesn't exist anymore, it got bought up.

But GW, I think we're called, GW Pharmaceuticals.

They are the ones, they had a drug that was fast-tracked for a form of epilepsy, that's what got them known.

This is when Charlotte's Web, that strain of high-CBD cannabis became popular and it was growing in Colorado a lot.

Yeah, I was gonna ask because of like the ratios and all that, like have they figured out, you know, the pairings of that?

Cause there's also like CBC, CBN and there's other like variations.

So THC has its own benefits, but it's the least, it's the 1 that's least likely to be used in medicine because of its psychotropic effects.

Right, so like, you know, you want to take something for inflammation, you don't want to be high all the time.

I mean, maybe you do, but most people don't.

But you know, there's some benefits to the psychotropic effects.

There could be maybe some therapeutic effects and stuff like that But they want to find the ones that affect you that have subtle, you know Maybe maybe just make you feel better, but really have effects on inflammation insulin sensitivity Anticancer, they're anti proliferative with cancer Cannabinoids have been shown the first study.

I remember out of Spain showed that it was anti cancer in brain cancer They showed to be anti cancer and liver cancer and other forms of cancer.

So it's really interesting, but with weight and fat loss and insulin sensitivity, they're pursuing it, they're looking at it.

And it's weird because I remember when the first 1 came out, they thought, oh, something's wrong.

This doesn't, that's why it's paradoxical, because they totally anticipated

I don't, I think we all think that the science and the research around this is fascinating, fun to talk about.

I don't think that you would recommend this as a

Although it may come out this way, right?

Now, because more and more things now are moving in this direction, and maybe It's not the best fat loss type of supplement, but we're starting to attach it to health benefits in general.

Do you foresee this as like a potential multivitamin stack of like becoming more of a daily usage thing that somebody takes on a lower daily dose.

I think it'll, I don't know if it'll go that far to where they give it to everybody, but I think it'll be very commonly used because the endocannabinoid deficiency syndrome hasn't been identified, but it's been speculated that a lot of people aren't producing enough of their own natural endocannabinoids because of stress, because of gut issues, because of maybe toxins and so when you produce less of your own endocannabinoids, well, the effects may be more inflammation, gut issues, you may have issues with sleep, you may have issues with anxiety and mood.

And so supplementing with like hemp oil, which isn't gonna get you high, you'll notice it by the way, If you supplement with, if you take Ned, you'll feel it, you'll feel something, but you're not high.

You just be like, wow, I kind of feel good.

And you can tell, it's not like a, like, do I feel something?

Like you can, you can tell you feel something.

I think a lot of people who have like kind of just don't feel kind of good.

They have inflammation, their sleep is kind of crappy.

Like this is, it's effective for a lot of people.

My dad, my mom, I have an aunt, my grandfather before he passed away, they were using Ned on a consistent basis.

I'm running low, you know, and he always offers to buy it, but of course I'm not gonna let my dad buy it.

I'm like, no, I'll give you some, but he used it on a consistent basis.

My dad's got, you know, he's got lots of arthritis and joint issues just from hard labor working since he was a child.

his motorcycle crash story and it just blew my mind.

Yeah, he just rolled his way through the whole thing.

And just because of his judo background and everything, like knew how to kind of fall through, but just like literally got thrown off his bike.

At his age, dude, it was like a year or 2 ago or something.

Yeah, he broke his foot a little bit, but it's funny because he tells a story to Justin and he goes, and I'm in the street And I'm trying to get up and people like don't get up.

He's like, I'm gonna get run over for it Yeah, dude, my we had an intervention My siblings all went to my mom afterwards to my mom's house and we're all like you can't stop riding motorcycles.

Yeah, you stop riding motorcycles Yeah Were you are you

in the thread when I was giving him what he was talking all sweet and appreciative of his parents and shit all over it.

Yeah, you didn't respond, so I don't know if you saw it.

You were just talking about how appreciative you were of your parents and your family there.

And I was making a comment about, oh, I was telling you, like they were asking, they wanted to pay for everything.

And you're like, no, no, no, no, like what you've done has been so much

made a comment, I said, tell them how much money you made for the last 10 days while you were on vacation.

And you're like, no, no, no, it's about this or that.

My family has done so much, I could never repay them.

And you were kind of like jabbing back at me when I was just like, bragging, telling you to brag about how much we made, so you shit all over my point.

And so I came back and said, well, I guess if I had your parents, I would say

I have no sound, I just dropped the mic on.

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