Debunking Cortisol and Insulin Myths

A hundred percent because we understand that we are professionals at program design and that people are paying us money to be professional and write something that's truly bespoke for them to drive them to the goals they want. So we're not monkey shitting on our, our hands thrown at the wall. Every single thing that we've put on that program is there for a highly specific purpose. It's going to feed into the next phase, the next phase, the next phase, the next phase, on and on and on. So it like I don think people under I can reinforce that anymore because people do not understand the difference between somebody is truly professional elite level at program design versus the other 99 of coaches in the world Yeah and this is kind of where it like if you have a specific training goal then we are going to program for it If you don then we just going to program you with the best hypertrophy program that we have that is going to get you the results. And if you follow that and you train close enough to failure and you know how to push yourself, you're going to get the physique results that you want. Have a specific goal, then that takes the next level of programming. And that's where our body goes to overdrive. But the body fat part, before we go into people blaming their diet or their training for their lack of body fat i would say the most overlooked factor that sabotages people's progress is if people are watching the video this will be funny is cortisol it's insulin it's all this stuff that your it's your chronic stress is holding you back because your cortisol is fucking up your gut and your hormones and now you have moon face and cortisol dysregulation can we just say first that i was being a complete idiot just then but i would say that a lot of the shit online is the stuff that holds people back because they then get confused they blame cortisol where does cortisol fit into this where does gut health fit into this and what is the truth behind insulin and insulin resistance what is the truth i mean look all that stuff i'm not gonna say it doesn't matter because it does but most of the people talking about stuff have no fucking idea what they're fucking talking about and in a lot of cases people people online have shit to sell you so if you come to somebody the problem whatever they think they're an expert at that's what they're going to tell you the problem is so if someone is an expert with cortisol or they're a semi-quasi guru that they've named themselves the cortisol king or whatever they're going to tell you that everything that's wrong with you is, is related to cortisol. If they're a carnivore guy and, you know, a low carb guy, they're going to say carbs are the evil thing. And it's, it's all about the insulin. And they're going to, they're going to try to convince you that the problem is one little thing when the problem is actually a, it's multifactorial of a bunch of different shit that's interplaying with themselves because they're, they're all of these things have, they all work together and they work against each other. And the problem really, like cortisol, cortisol is really realistically a downstream thing, right? So if we move upstream from that, there are other things happening with adrenaline and noradrenaline with histamine. We can relate that to gut. We can look at the sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system, look at the autonomic nervous system, enteric nervous system, like all of these things don't get fucked up by themselves. So if you have a fucked up gut, you probably have a nervous system issue. You could have a hormonal issue. You could have a brain issue. You could have an early childhood trauma issue. You could have a lifestyle issue and a sleep issue. There are all these things that are feeding into this. You don't just get a fucked up gut, right? You don't just get poor insulin management. You don't just get fucked up cortisol response. Like this stuff doesn't happen in isolation. It happens as part of a huge matrix. So these people that are trying to tell you that their their puzzle piece is the one thing that's going to fix you, they're all full of shit because there's a bunch of puzzle pieces that need to be put in that puzzle to make things more clear. So what people need to do is and I'll say this, probably the number one thing that's holding people back has nothing to do with a hormone, has nothing to do with their gut. It has to do with themselves. People are the ones that are holding themselves back because they won't get their shit together. They won't do what they need to do. They won't make a complete lifestyle change. They skip workouts. They fuck up on their diet. They try to jump in and do stuff too aggressively instead of easing into it. They get bad advice and then then they don't have patience. So if they haven't seen the effects in three days, they switch to something else. and then in three days they switched to something else in three so now it's like i've tried everything you've tried like 24 different things for three days each how about you try something for six months and then don't don't just throw it in the trash try to figure out what part of that's working what part's not and just stop doing the stuff that's not working keep doing the stuff that's working and then layer something else on top of that it's it's it's insanity like i i've I have people who are morbidly obese and they're like, I just can't lose weight. All right. I'll put them on a three-day fast, water fast with a little bit of fish oil and a multivitamin. They lose a heap of weight. I'm like, I thought you couldn't lose weight. Well, it's because I didn't eat anything. Oh, so you're saying a deficit works. Yeah. I'm like, okay, so now we don't need to do 100% deficit. Can we do a 25% to 30% deficit and make sure you don't miss your training sessions and just understand that it's going to just take a little bit of time. But I shown you that a deficit makes you lose weight So now you just have to have that deficit over an extended period of time to lose the hundred fucking kilos of food that you eaten in the past that you couldn get rid of that now stored on your body