Muscle Mass and Longevity Research

do you think there is an argument that improving muscle using low dose peds could it ever be construed as a good thing because if we improve our musculature surely there has to be a benefit there yeah 100 100 look that i mean if you look at There a really old study by Tufts University And it is they made a book out of it It like the top 10 factors for lowering all cause mortality anti and all this One of the top at the list was not losing, like being strong and not losing strength and having muscle and not losing it. Now, a lot of people, including my mentor, Charles, took this the wrong way. they took a lot of guys especially people who are biased towards weightlifting people who are biased towards bodybuilding will take this as well that paper shows that the more muscle mass you have and the stronger you are the better but that's not really what the point of it was the point was don't get sarcopenia don't lose muscle and maintain your strength for the rest of your life it wasn't you know take a hundred milligrams of anadrol and a thousand milligrams of test and and 500 milligrams a trend and get as big and strong as humanly possible. So there's, there's all these extremes. Like the body doesn't like extremes. It likes staying somewhere in the bell curve. So it's like you have a point where you put on a bit of muscle mass. That's a good thing. You put on a ton of muscle mass at some, there's a tipping point where that's no longer actually a healthy thing to do anymore. So it's, it's, it's knowing what those, like what those tipping points are. And there was a study that came out a few years ago talking about BMI. Is BMI actually relevant? And what they said in the study was it actually still is relevant because if you look at like I'm considered I'm considered overweight based on the BMI. OK, now I'm a big dude. I'm heavy boned. I've got a lot of muscle. Being overweight with the BMI from like bodybuilding or weightlifting, whatever, not a big deal. That's part of it. But if you're in the class one, class two obesity part of BMI, you're either on a massive amount of PEDs or you're a lot fatter than you think, which neither of those things are necessarily healthy. So what we need to do is not throw BMI, like don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but to put it in better context, like a new kind of version of looking at it. So if you are a guy and you're lifting weights and you're in an overweight category and you're lean, like say sub 15%, you're doing pretty good. If you start moving up to that higher class of obesity, again, you're probably taking it too far either with body fat or you're taking it too far with how much gear you're taking. And you're probably not taking TRT anymore. Yeah. Because I've never seen anybody natural that's in a class one, class two obesity with that much muscle mass. I'm sure there's a freak outlier, but I've never actually seen it. But I've seen a lot of guys who are taking tons of gear, like way too much, that definitely fit that category. And they're definitely not healthy. Yeah. yeah absolutely