Multi sport world record setting athlete, physician, Founder https://xitter.gq/t.co/mxJyq8oV2I: online clinic for treating chronic diseases, author of “The Carnivore Diet”
St Petersburg, FL
Joined October 2015
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Several comment on various platforms regarding my comments on not using TRT. Some take it as a personal denigration of their integrity
1. I couldn’t care less what others do with their health, (which the exception I’ll discuss below)
2. I have always competed and still plan on completing in a number of sports (eg, track and field, Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, rowing and likely more), which have all banned TRT, even for older athletes, as it clearly provides significant unfair advantage compared to those that are not using PEDS
3. Most importantly, I have zero reason to use TRT as I have no signs of deficiency, even though I’m about to turn 60, and interestingly my testosterone is absolutely not abnormally high for my age ranging from 237 to 500 the few times it’s been tested. Now I could easily use those lower numbers and claim I needed TRT and easily get a doctor to prescribe it. I would then be even stronger, faster etc.. than I already am and it would be totally unethical in the context of sport for me to do so.
4. We have unfortunately entered a time when even 20 and 30 year old men are taking these drugs, often for reasons that are, in my view, completely unnecessary and therefore anyone that is in even remotely decent shape these days is assumed to be drugged up, which is unfortunate.
5. I fully believe that most men, if they were disciplined with diet, exercise, sleep and other lifestyle factors would not need to be on these drugs (obviously exceptions exist and I have no doubt they will show up in the comments).
6. As I said in point number one, I don’t care what you take, unless you show up to a sport I’m competing at and try and cheat with drugs, then I will call you a scumbag asshole.
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Road to a 600 lb pull at age 60 (no TRT) -target today was 455lbs x 12 reps-had a bit of a miscue to start and had to find some skinnier 45s to fit on the bar! 12 reps fairly comfortably, will push this to 15 reps over next few weeks then bump up to 500lbs where target will be 10 reps
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Just finished another great meeting with the @reverohealth patients
Discussed weight loss stalls, hypothyroidism, changes to max heart rate during exercise, cholesterol, motivation and discipline
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Anyone shocked to see which industry spends the most money to influence our government?
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How about you instead just feed that cat a piece of meat
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Bert Lahr — the Cowardly Lion — once starred in a Lay’s commercial where he played both the man and the Devil.
The Devil holds out the bag and delivers the line that stuck for decades:
“Betcha can’t eat just one.”
Lahr grabs it. One chip. Then another. The Devil laughs. The bet is lost every time.
It was clever advertising. It was also an honest description of the product. Thin, hyper-palatable, engineered for the exact salt-and-crisp combination that overrides normal satiety. The kind of food designed so that “just one” is never the end.
The commercial treated that loss of control as a joke. For a lot of people it stopped being funny a long time ago.
Even the Cowardly Lion couldn’t stop.
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In the middle of a famine, Hansel and Gretel got left in the woods so the rest of the family might have enough to eat. They wandered for days with almost nothing. Then they found a little house made of bread, with a cake roof and windows of clear sugar. They didn’t stop to think. Hansel started pulling pieces off the roof. Gretel bit into the sugar panes. It was the sweetest thing either of them had ever tasted.
That house was the trap. The witch built it so hungry kids would stop and eat, and then she could take them.
In the medieval world this story comes from, actual sugar was rare and expensive. It came from the East and only the rich ever got much of it—kings and nobles buying it by the sack for fancy feasts and medicines. Ordinary people mostly used honey. Still, the people who could get sugar wanted more of it. It was sweet in a way honey wasn’t, and once you had it you kept looking for it. Demand kept growing.
So for two starving kids, a whole house with sugar windows wasn’t just food. It was something almost impossible to walk past. The sweetness hit harder because they’d never had anything like it. They walked right in. They got out later by outsmarting the witch, but the bait worked exactly the way it was meant to. Even back then, when sugar was scarce and costly, it already had a way of making people ignore the danger for one more bite.
We’ve made that bait cheap and everywhere. Modern sugar intake has driven up obesity, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and tooth decay on a scale no medieval person could have imagined. The same sweetness that once lured two kids into a witch’s house now quietly damages the health of whole populations, one easy bite at a time.
