Greg O' Gallagher On Best Supplements for Testosterone, Why Every Man Should Have a 6 Pack & Fasting | DSH #198
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So now there's this huge trend of taking testosterone.
What do you think of that for them?
I don't think it's the best thing for long-term, unless you have an underlying health issue.
Destroy your body's ability to produce testosterone.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Yeah, brain injury, testicular injury.
I was unlucky as a kid where like a few times I got hit hard.
In the ball.
Oh my God, dude.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got Greg O'Gallagher on the show today.
How's it going, man?
It's going great, dude.
I'm pumped to be in Vegas.
Yeah, first time in five years, you said.
First time in five years.
Yeah, I did like, I did like three Vegas trips one summer.
I need a little break.
Yeah, that's probably too many, especially if you're partying and stuff.
Yeah.
Are you out of that phase now, though?
I'm definitely out of that phase.
But, you know, my buddies and I, we just love coming to Vegas, do a little gambling.
It was fun.
We got some great restaurants here.
Phenomenal.
Honestly, Vegas might be the best restaurant city in the country.
Literally.
Yeah, I was at SW.
It's good.
Dude, any steakhouse is good here.
There's like 50 of them.
You can't go wrong.
100%.
But right now you're in Miami, right?
I spend part of the year in Miami, part of the year in Toronto.
Toronto, okay.
So you grew up in Canada?
I grew up in Canada, grew up playing hockey and all that.
Okay.
What's the biggest thing you've noticed difference-wise from Canadians and Americans?
You know what's crazy is I don't notice too much of a difference.
Like I live in Toronto and I come to the States.
I spend time in New York, L.A., et cetera.
So I don't see a crazy, huge difference.
Yeah, I guess because you're in a major city in Canada, it's kind of similar to like being in a major city here.
Yeah, the major cities are pretty, pretty like-minded.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I know you're huge into health.
So when did that journey start?
Was it at a young age or kind of later in life?
I was very interested in health and strength and muscle when I was extremely young.
Like as a six-year-old.
Six?
As a six-year-old, I had action figures.
I started watching, like, I watched Terminator for the first time when I was six and Van Dam and stuff like that.
And so it was planted in my mind very early.
I wanted to have that strength and power.
So as a very, very young kid, I wanted to train at like nine or ten.
Like, my father had like a dumbbell, and I was like, I wanted to do curls and get the pump going.
So, like, as soon as I could, I wanted strength and muscle.
I thought it was so cool.
I was, I, I was very drawn to like the action heroes and stuff like that.
Interesting.
Now, I want you to address this myth because I was told this growing up:
you're not supposed to lift when you're younger because it stunts your growth or something.
Yeah, so there's a whole idea that, like, as a young teenager, lifting weights will stunt stunt your growth.
It's largely been disproven assuming you use proper form, correct weight.
Now if you're young and growing and you're not lifting with good form, I mean that's probably a bad thing to do, but
you're always gonna have like impact.
So for example, there's gonna be more impact jumping.
than squatting 200 pounds.
So lifting weights done safely is totally fine as a 13, 14, 15 year old.
Now, if you're a 13 year old going to the gym by yourself and trying to like do one rep maxes, that's going to be a bad idea.
Yeah,
it was such a myth where I grew up.
It scared me from lifting, honestly.
Yeah, well, you grew very, very tall.
So, well, I wanted to grow tall, so it scared me from not being able to do that.
Yeah, so you know, it's been just been disproven.
Um, but when I was the same age, like, you know, I'm a 91, so when I was 10, 11, 12, that's what everyone was saying.
Yeah.
But, you know, I got this four boys in my family, and you know, we all kind of lifted weights.
Um, but my youngest ended up being like six, two, so he, he was like my youngest sibling, I ended up being very tall.
Wow, that's dope.
And your whole philosophy is all natural, right?
Yes.
So now there's this huge trend of taking testosterone.
What do you think of that for the health?
So I think that most people are jumping on TRT.
It's not necessary and not like the best move.
So if you're a 20-something year old, 30-something year-old, the best thing to do is get your testosterone levels to a great place naturally.
There is so much you can do to improve your testosterone levels naturally as far as the right nutrition, training, sunlight, rest, balancing out stress, taking the correct supplementation.
So there's so much you can do to get your testosterone levels to a very good place naturally.
There's also a lot working against you in this modern climate.
We've seen a massive drop in testosterone levels, 40% since the 80s.
But it can be corrected naturally if you know what to do.
Now, jumping on TRT in your 20s and 30s, I don't think is the best thing for long-term quality of life.
And unless you have an underlying health issue.
If you have some underlying health issue where you just simply cannot bring your tea levels up to a good spot.
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Wow, I didn't know that.
Yeah, brain injury, testicular injury.
I was unlucky as a kid where a few times I got hit hard.
In the ball.
Oh my God, dude.
Oh, my God.
But I was fine.
I bounced back.
I was fine.
But I have heard of a guy.
I was actually talking to like Michael Sartain when I was on his show a year ago.
And he was talking about like his buddy got like kicked by a donkey in the nuts and it was he was done.
So yeah, so if you had like some sort of serious health
issue or injury and you cannot produce it, and yes, that's the best possible move.
But what you will see when you go on TRT is fertility levels will come down massively.
So if you do plan on having children, you really want to wait till after you have children to do TRT if possible.
Now,
the question on TRT is different when you are talking about a 50-year-old male.
You can actually maintain very good testosterone levels well into your 30s, even your 40s, but from 50 onward, that's when typically levels will start to decline.
Right.
They thought it was 30, but if you maintain proper nutrition, training, so on and so forth, you can do great in your 30s.
And then really kind of mid-40s to 50s is when you see that drop off.
So that's a different discussion for someone that wants to introduce that in their late 40s and 50s.
And I've talked to men that are
in their late 40s that are natural and they're feeling great and strong and have good T levels.
And that's awesome.
But like you can see natural jack guys at 45, but at 60, 65, you do see that drop off.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I never realized how important testosterone was until I got my blood taken and started doing natural ways, like you said, to increase it.
And dude, I I feel way better it's not even close amazing did you did you get a starting and a starting T level and then yeah so I started at 552 which is I don't know if that's low but it's kind of that's pretty it's pretty average average yeah but then when I got it to 800 dude I haven't been sick since awesome like I don't get sick I feel energized I did it all naturally yeah like there's people injecting stuff in their or whatever but I mean I feel like you could just treat it naturally
you definitely can and there's certain minerals that support testosterone production that are also very good for immune function.
So if you're taking zinc, for example, very good for immune function and helps support testosterone.
And your ability to produce more testosterone is actually linked to your immune system.
That makes sense because I haven't been sick.
Yeah.
And simple stuff like zinc, there's one tonkat ali.
Tongata Li is very, very good.
Pine tree pollen.
Okay.
Vitamin D.
So just simple stuff, nothing too crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are the simple stuff, the basics.
The three minerals that are very good for testosterone production.
Zinc, of course.
Magnesium is really good and it benefits testosterone production in athletes and sedentary people.
It actually increases your total testosterone.
Boron is very good.
Boron is very anti-estrogenic.
And right now, the average person, literally across the world, we are consuming, even in food, phthalates, little microplastics.
And it literally, it adds up like an entire week.
I just read this thing where it's like equivalent to eating like a credit card and plastic in your food.
What?
Yeah.
So
it's like five or seven grams in plastic you take in per uh in a week, and it's getting leached into different foods.
Even if you put on a body wash, you know, if you go to the whatever the CVS is, you buy just regular body wash, it's loaded with perfume, and perfume's got fragrances and phthalates, and you're literally rubbing on all these endocrine disruptors into your skin.
If you're going and buying laundry detergent, you want to get unscented.
The scented stuff, the scented stuff has tons of phthalates.
And so most people, if they don't know better, better, they're loading phthalates onto their skin, which absorbs effectively everything.
They're eating foods with higher amounts of phthalates.
And then
if you're wearing underwear, check the label.
Is it cotton or is it polyester?
The polyester can literally reduce your count such that you can't even conceive kids.
So don't, yeah, don't do polyester.
If your phone is in your pocket, you want to keep it on airplane as much as possible.
You don't want to be going hours with your phone in your pocket
radiating.
So that's not great for production.
And also there's some research that shows it produces testosterone too.
So there's all these things kind of coming at us that deplete your body's ability to create high testosterone.
And with testosterone, you have your total, right?
So you took your total from five something to 800, which is very good.
But you also have your free testosterone.
How much of that is actually unbound?
And that unbound testosterone is really what's linked to all the, all the things we think about of testosterone, putting on muscle, ambition, drive, energy.
It's really that free testosterone.
And so, for example, that Tong Gedali is not just good at increasing total, it actually helps unlock more free testosterone.
Yeah, it just feels like we're constantly dodging things that harm your body.
Like it's everywhere.
We're constantly, but you know what?
I have this idea that like, you know, I think that, you know, our...
our bodies naturally want to be in peak shape.
So if you just get out of its own way and you do the correct steps, you can can get to a good spot.
And there's a certain amount of tolerance your body can handle where a certain amount of phthalate, a certain amount of radiation, it can handle that.
But when it gets too high, then the currents are working against you.
And so the tong, get a line, the boron are helpful for solving for that because they help reduce that estrogen.
And so you can help your body kind of produce more testosterone.
So if you, a simple thing for people to do is eliminate fragrances, especially those in body wash and scented detergents, limit using cologne and stuff like that.
And then it extends.
Like people have hairsprays, they have tons of fragrance.
They use air fresheners in their place.
No, I can't stand it.
Sometimes I get into like an Uber, and if I open the door and it just hits me in the face, I just cancel.
I cancel.
I'm like, I got a 30-minute ride.
I'm not breathing this in for 30 minutes.
But there's so, but so you want to eliminate as much as you can, eat very high-quality food, take correct supplements.
And then, really, like two of the most powerful, which is unfortunate because
this is what most people don't get right now, is they don't get very high-quality sleep.
High-quality sleep, and most people, even if they think they're getting good sleep, oh, I get seven, eight hours.
You're not getting high-quality sleep, and they don't get the correct amount of either vitamin D through supplementation or sunlight.
Those two are really foundational.
Like, if you're looking at the pillars of creating great health, and you know, we talked about this before the episode, some people go way too far down the rabbit holes and do some weird things.
If we want to talk about the highest ROI levers, it's lifting weights, right?
It's walking, it's good nutrition, and then really sleep and sunlight.
Like if you can do those keys, you're going to be in a really, really good spot.
And so sleep is massive.
There's even some research that shows that if you get subpar sleep, let's say five hours compare it to eight hours, your ability to gain muscle goes down like 40%.
That's a lot.
It's a lot.
So like, let's say you're doing a, let's say you're trying to get lean and cut 10 pounds.
And then, you know, you get five hours of sleep versus eight hours.
Your ability to maintain muscle while cutting is massively worse when your sleep is subpar.
And so with sleep, you want to get obviously the right duration of sleep, but it's like, it's like you need blackout.
You can't have light coming in.
Like, I know firsthand, if I just have like the last two hours as light coming in, I'm exhausted all day.
It's a night and day difference.
So you want blackout.
You want to sleep colder.
Your body can induce sleep and produce melatonin more effectively when your body's cooler.
So you want cool, you want dark.
And then I don't even like to have my cell phone in the same room.
Have like people sleep their cell phone like under their pillow or right next to them is not good.
So keep your cell phone away.
You want to get, if you can just sort of a little bit sort of move back to kind of like this pre-modern era of life as far as kind of keeping some technology away, at least when you're sleeping, I think it's very important.
And not having your phone and blasting on.
But so there's a lot of things, but don't worry.
Like, I've helped men literally increase their tea to 300 points with different training, nutrition, lifestyle strategies, supplementation with our products, Mojo, that has a lot of those ingredients we talked about.
And so men can literally increase their levels to a great spot.
And it's interesting, like you said, the difference it makes when you're lower versus when you increase it.
Like you put on muscle, you have more energy, you have more drive.
I've seen people just simply become more successful simply by increasing their tea production.
Absolutely.
It's night and day.
Night and day.
What's the lowest T you've seen?
I mean, I've seen guys that were under, that were young, that were kind of in the 300s.
At a young age, that's scary.
Yeah, 300s is really like, to give people context, like the average T levels in the 80s and stuff like that were probably around for men, 700.
Now they're closer to like the 500.
You'll see more, a lot of men, the average man these days, somewhere in the 400 to hundred range so if you're 600 and up you're in a good spot um and that's total again you want to have the right proportion of free testosterone too so because you can have high i've seen people that have had 700 800 total but they only had one percent of that was unbound you want at least two percent to be unbound right um
so that could be a big difference you have two people at 800 and they have completely different um uh amounts of free.
So yeah, so 400 to 500 is kind of average these days.
And then under 400 is really when you're gonna see a lot of issues.
And especially if you're kind of at the 300.
And so, and I, and I recommend literally every single man that's watching this, whether you're 21 or 31 or 41, you wanna get your levels checked.
You wanna know where you are
because having that starting point is very important.
Let's say you had a concussion or let's say you got hit and you had like a little, you got hit.
in the nuts or something happened or you just wake up you feel different it's helpful to go and be like oh you know what Actually, you know what?
I'm fine.
My levels were the same as what they were before.
Or, oh my God, like my levels are down 200 points since I had this really bad concussion.
You want to get this information.
Then you also want to get that starting point and be like, well, at 22, my levels were 650.
Now at 32, I'm also 650.
So this is great.
I'm maintaining my levels.
So I think for men, it's very, very important.
Do a whole, you know, get all your blood work done.
And then there's other health markers you want to look at.
So there's luteinizing hormone, FSH that are linked to fertility and stuff.
So if you look at someone's blood work that's on
anabolics, they're on testosterone, they're on different steroids, you're going to see their precursor hormones like LH, luteinizing hormone that's linked to fertility, completely shut down.
From steroids?
Yeah.
So it will completely shut down
and become either very, very low under the natural range or sometimes even undetectable.
So that's kind of one of the ways where you can actually see is someone using anabolics.
And typically, LH won't rebound.
It takes like six to nine months to rebound if someone goes on gear and goes off.
And so LH is really important.
Yeah.
Are you concerned with the drop in fertility rates?
Because it seems like there's so many things causing it.
But as a country, you know, we can't repopulate if this continues going on.
Yeah.
So like the same drop almost like to the exact proportion that we're seeing with
testosterone, we're seeing with fertility, right?
So if we're seeing a 40% reduction in testosterone, we're seeing almost a 50% 50% reduction in fertility.
Jeez, that's so high.
Yeah, so it's pretty staggering,
but there's not much education, right?
On like it's starting to build up.
Like I've been going down a rabbit hole into this stuff for the last, I mean, really intensely the last couple of years, but I've been looking into this stuff for five plus years, but fertility is coming down pretty hard.
I am confident though, if you know what to do, you can get yourself to a good spot and you can get yourself to like a really, really good spot.
But again, like literally, polyester underwear, absolutely terrible for fertility.
Being overweight,
you know, the majority of Americans and even North Americans are overweight, right?
And then, you know, there's, you know, a pretty high percentage are considered medically obese, which people think obese and they think someone that's really big, like...
280 pounds, obese is not that big.
A guy that's five foot 10, right, 205 pounds is considered medically obese.
So as your waistline gets bigger, your T levels go down, fertility goes down.
That's also why, you know, women naturally, when they see a man that has more of a taut waist and broader shoulders, it signals strength, protection, and fertility value.
Yep.
So you want to get lean, healthy, and strong.
You want to use natural, like wear cotton underwear, sleep naked, keep your phone away from your nuts as much as possible.
And if you just do mostly those things and eat a healthy diet, then most men should be able to get fertility to a really, really good spot.
And there's different supplements that can be beneficial for fertility and stuff like that.
You can go and do, you know, get your blood work done, see what nutrients you're deficient in, take the zinc bond, do stuff like that.
And, you know, and you should be in a very, very good spot.
But if you just follow the herd, you follow the herd, you are screwed.
Literally.
Yeah, dude.
First thing I'm doing when I get home is ordering cotton underwear.
Yeah, get the cotton, get the looser-fitting cotton underwear.
Check your, I mean, because a lot of that nice, a lot of the stuff that feels really good, right?
A lot of the stuff that feels really good is like woven, has like polyester woven in it.
I'm pretty sure mine's polyester.
Yeah, and even your bed sheets, right?
Like sometimes
your bed sheets are polyester.
Yeah, because imagine you're sleeping, right?
Imagine you're sleeping and you're sleeping naked and you're like, oh, I'm not wearing my polyester underwear.
Well, guess what?
You got like your package pressed up against, against your polyester.
And it's annoying because sometimes that polyester just, they create the softness you can't replicate yeah um but do you sleep on cotton sheets i i definitely sleep on cotton sheets um and uh you know i'm actually gonna i'm gonna do some more shopping and find like that the super soft cotton yeah my girl's gonna be so pissed that i'm switching but yeah i mean you gotta
you gotta do the switch and even even just having like polyester t-shirts on um that can like leak in like fat i used to wear the jerseys because they're all polyester they're all the sports jerseys yeah and i had to stop but i didn't even think about underwear or bed sheets Like there's, yeah, there's a lot that you don't know about that you're just doing on a daily basis.
Yeah, I've been in, you know, I've been building like a clothing line for fun on the side.
I've been looking into different, all these different fabrics.
And now I've had my team switch entirely to,
you know, cotton, bamboo, stuff like that, and avoid any sort of, but the fashion industry has really done a big push into these more of these synthetic fabrics.
It's cheaper, right?
It's cheaper for sure.
And if you go to, if you look, just if you look at some brands, you'll see what they're using.
But you want to look for natural fabrics.
Cotton, wool, merino wool is good.
And then bamboo is really good, stuff like that.
But then there's also like this little famous the goose right now where people are marketing bamboo, but they're actually using a synthetic sort of version of bamboo called viscose, which is not good.
So there's fake bamboo.
There's fake bamboo.
Viscose, yeah.
So like a lot of people are marketing.
Oh, we got try this bamboo product, t-shirt, underwear, whatever.
And you look at the label, it's just viscose, which is garbage.
Yeah.
Anytime they can make an extra dollar, they're going to do it, you know?
Anytime.
And I don't want people listening to kind of feel overwhelmed and just feel like the fetus because there's so many things.
Just start with one step at a time, right?
Good sleep, some sunlight, the walking, nutrition, training, and then start to like cut out some of these perfumes and fragrances and then look at your clothes.
And it's really not that hard.
So don't get, don't get, you know, this is one of the keys.
I transform a lot of people.
And you don't want people to think about the negative.
You want them to think think about the positive.
Like, imagine how you're going to feel when you remove all these things, shutting down your tea production.
When you wake up and you feel that drive, like the one thing, as a man, right?
As a man, the one way you know your tea levels are probably working pretty well is when you wake up to an iron rod.
Yep, that was the first thing I noticed.
Yeah, that's a good signal.
If you wake up to a soft noodle, that's not good.
That was me for years.
And then once I raised it, iron rod every day.
The iron rod every day is a great sign, especially if you have to like go to the bathroom and do like the Superman.
So that's a very, very good, healthy sign.
And so a lot of men, they remember having that when they were in their late teens, early 20s, and then somewhere along the lines, it just falls off.
Yeah.
I want to dive into a couple of your controversial tweets.
Sure.
One of them was, you believe every man should have a six-pack.
Yeah.
Why did you feel that way?
Well, you know what?
The reason is because it's actually not that hard if you know what to do.
So let's be honest.
Everyone listening right now, if I could snap my fingers and you could have a six-pack, would you want that?
Yeah.
Yes.
No one is like, no, I want to be 18% body fat.
So it's not that hard.
If you know what to do, the benefits are massive.
You know, you're lean, you're strong, you look good.
Even if you don't want to be shirtless at the pool, you know, you put on a suit, you put on outfit, like half the battle of looking good, right?
Whether you're going out for dinner, you're on a date, you're going to event, half the battle of a suit, an outfit looking good is just being fit.
Now, having a six-pack, really what it just means is that you have a lower body fat.
You have a lower body fat with a little bit of muscle.
And so,
and the leaner you are within reason, I'm not talking about 5%, 6%, but if you get to like 10%,
9, 10%,
the leaner you are, the higher your testosterone levels are.
They're inversely correlated.
The leaner your waist gets, the higher your testosterone levels are.
So if you know what to do, it's not hard.
Like if you're listening right now, why don't you have a six-pack?
Literally, you wake up, you don't eat first thing in the morning.
This is how I make it so easy, okay?
You don't eat first thing in the morning.
Wait an hour.
You have a black coffee.
Okay.
Let's say, what time do you wake up at?
7.
7 a.m.
Okay.
So, you know, 8.30, you know, you have a black coffee.
You push that first meal till 1 p.m.
Fasting is very, very easy if you just do five hours.
If you're trying to fast all the way to dinner, it's very hard.
If you're trying to do a 24, 36, it's very hard.
The first five hours is so easy, especially if you drink a little sparkling water, black coffee.
Now, by not eating for the first five hours, now the calories that you need to, let's say your goal is to lose five pounds of fat, or whatever, let's say you have 50 pounds of fat to lose, the calories you need to eat to be in a deficit, to get leaner.
Well, now you have, you get to eat like more, it feels like more food because you're not eating for the first
five hours of the day.
And then you eat a moderate size lunch, something to kind of stave off hunger, satisfy you, nourish you.
You get to have a big dinner feast at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m.
You choose whenever you want to have your dinner, steak, potatoes, some broccoli, absolutely satisfying.
And then you can even have some, finish every single day.
Every single day when I'm cutting to a low body fat, for me, I get down to like whatever, 7%.
But every single day, I'll have chocolate, I'll have some cookies, I'll have four or five hundred calories of a treat every single night.
And so I'm like, and again, I've also had periods where I was eating too much and I wasn't really tracking my nutrition, I was being lazy.
And when you're not taking care of your body, right?
You also feel like shit.
Like you don't feel good.
Like when you're when you're eating too much, you wake up, you look, you feel like you're gaining fat you look you feel soft You don't have the confidence when you walk into a room when you're on a date you just kind of have this thing luring behind you of just like not being content with with how you are and just you have this thing you want to solve I'm not in shape It just kind of bleeds into your entire day for sure subconsciously subconsciously and I I've I've when I was younger I've kind of I had some periods where I would be dieting and then I'd fall off and then and I just I remember the confidence that it would it would really destroy my confidence part of it destroying my confidence was like, why can't I even stick to this diet, right?
It took me a long time to really crack the code to get lean.
And so I'm like, why do I keep failing?
And I realized a lot of the diets and nutrition protocols I was trying to do, either, they weren't designed to work or they were just simply unbearable.
They're short term.
You need a lifestyle approach.
So the point there is that you can literally fast.
eat a nice delicious lunch big dinner feast chocolate or cookies at night stay in a deficit go for a little walk every day hit the gym twice, lift weights twice, and wake up chiseled and have a six-pack.
Anyone can do it.
How long would it take if someone had a flat belly to get a six-pack, like a year?
Let's say someone is 18% body fat, which is pretty average for a 22-year-old, right?
So you're 18% body fat.
To have a clear six-pack would require you to be at 10%, right?
So you got to cut at least 8% body fat.
Now, assuming they're around 190, 200 pounds,
you know, they need to lose at least two pounds per body fat percentage, right?
So they they got to lose at least 16 pounds.
And you can do that if you want to do it slow and enjoy the process and really be able to either maintain or even rebuild a little bit of muscle while you do it.
Take you about four months.
Oh, that's not bad.
Four months to get a six-pack if you stick to it and if you commit.
If you hit your two workouts a week and you eat your chocolate at night.
Wait, only two a week?
I do two a week.
Sometimes I'll do three.
Oh, I thought you meant two a day.
No, two, I do two workouts a week.
Oh, that's not bad at all.
Yeah, this idea that you need to be in the gym all the time is completely and absolutely garbage.
It's wrong.
What you need to do to build an amazing physique as a natural is you need to go into the gym and push for a personal record.
You need to get stronger.
I need, if I want to put 10 pounds of muscle on someone, I need to take their incline bench press up, you know, 30 pounds.
We got to get, if you're doing incline presses with 150, we got to get you up to 180.
If you're doing weighted chin-ups with 20 pounds, we got to get you up to 50.
As you get stronger on key lifts, you'll build muscle.
And when you train less, you know, it doesn't have to be two days.
Three days a week is typically what I,
you know, what I coach people on.
My latest program is actually the lazy rip.
It's two days.
But if you get stronger and you really focus on doing less, you can hit more personal records, you recover and you build muscle while you're resting, not while you're in the gym.
So I've tested it all.
I was obsessed with fitness since I was 13, 14 years old.
I tested training six days a week, five, four.
The sweet spot really is three days.
Three days is perfect, but I've even seen really good results with two.
Yeah, that's impressive.
One more tweet, and then we'll wrap this up.
I thought this one was funny.
You don't like loud chewers.
No, I hate it.
What is it about the loud chewing that gets to you?
So I think there's this thing called misophonia, and it kind of like it onsets.
Like as soon as you kind of hit puberty, 13 years old, it onsets.
I remember just, I was at some show or something, and then just some kid was just chewing some candy so loud.
And it was the first time I really had this like, almost like this adrenaline spike to this chewing.
I literally had like adrenaline.
Like I wanted to like go into a fight or something.
It's actually a real thing.
It's like a central nervous system response to something.
Yeah, it's it's so
I really do not like loud chewing.
What about gum?
If, yeah, if someone's chewing gum very, I mean, you could chew gum and not it be obnoxious, but someone's chewing gum really loud drives me crazy.
No, someone, if someone's breathing like through their nose really loud.
They're loud breathers, bro.
I had a kid behind me in science class.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I still have nightmares about it.
Yeah.
And like also like if you're if you're sick around me, like why are you being sick around me?
Like if someone's just like,
like I just, I can't do, I couldn't even, I couldn't do university, man, because university, everyone, everyone in university is sick.
Dude, everyone.
Airplanes.
When someone's sick by me, I hate it.
Oh, it drives me.
Yeah, university, too.
Yeah, I couldn't really learn and focus because you're in an auditorium with 300 people and then everyone is coughing.
Every five seconds you hear someone coughing.
Facts.
It's just like, the university is filled with sick people, man.
Disgusting.
Take care of your health, you know?
Yeah, man.
It's been fun.
Anything you want to close off with or promote?
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