The CEO Analogy for the Endocrine System

You can, you can move to that fat loss plateau, but is it really productive? That's the question, right? You know, if you, if you keep removing food and you keep creating a caloric deficit, of course, you're going to keep losing weight. The problem is that your, your body is taking an assessment of everything, right? So I, when I teach in my courses, I teach your endocrine system is kind of like a business structure. So at the top of the business, you have your CEO, which is the hypothalamus, right? And so if you think about what is a CEO, what do they do? Well, they look at financial records, they look at the history, they look at projections, and they direct, they delegate work to other managers that then delegate things to their workers and all the different departments in order to move the business one direction or another. So if I keep removing food, you know, he's talking to his next top guy, which is going to be the pituitary, and the pituitary isn't going to talk to all the departments, thyroid, gonads, adrenal system, all that. And then those different departments are going to send out the workers, which are all the hormones. Now, in a business, you got to look at your run sheet. What's the cash in? What's the cash out? How much do we have in reserves? What can we actually do? If you think about energy, and we can just call it calories, but we're really looking at is it's energy. Energy is cash. Do I have enough cash to run all my departments. If I run out of cash because I'm doing way too much exercise and I'm not bringing enough money in, so I've got too much labor and not enough money, then I have to make an executive decision of how do I save the company? Well, what's the first thing a company does when it losing massive amounts of money And we say the second thing The first thing is they do is they give the CEO a raise which that not how this works in your body which is awful But what they start laying people off So like okay we going to all these all the testosterone we can pay you So we going to have to put you on furlough The thyroid can't pay you either. So we got to cut some people off and we have to, we have to basically make, make our department smaller. So then you get subclinical hypothyroid issues. You get low testosterone. You can't grow pretty hair, skin, and nails, you know, So you can't actually tap into what you need. And so if you think about it, this is good. Okay, I just thought of this. Okay, initially in a diet, you can draw a loan from the bank and the bank is your fat cells. But eventually, bankers aren't going to give you any more cash because you're not paying the cash back. So you get to the point where you're in financial ruins. So the only thing you can do is lay off people and lay off departments until your body catches up. So the only way that you're going to catch up at that point is by getting a loan from a different bank. And that's food coming in. OK, so if you can't get if you can't tap into dodging this food because you've laid off the thyroid, you're going to have to go to an outside source. So maybe maybe if you're in America, you go to China and ask them for some money. I don't know. I'm winging this this analogy at this point. Um, but you know, then if you have to get, if you have to go to an outside bank, like another, like another country or whatever, um, there's going to come with some repercussions and some, some, uh, some, uh, what am I like exceptions for this? Right. So it makes it prohibitively harder to pay that back. So then in the scheme of endocrinology, you start binging because your brain's like, Hey dude, I need some food. So I'm just going to binge. And you're trying to, you're trying to repay the bankers. The problem is the interest rate is super high. So now you have to give the fat sales, the bankers more money, extra money. So all this fat that you've pulled off, you're going to end up with that plus some interest, right? So the key is to manage your run sheet, right? So I have two choices. I can go fast for a small amount of time, or I can go slow for a longer amount of time. If I go fast, I can't go fast for very long. So I have to have a beginning and an end date. So let's say, you know, for a personal trainer's perspective, what time period is the most important thing when you onboard a new client? You have to show them results in this amount of time, or you're not going to be training in the past 12 weeks. The first three weeks, if you don't show them marked improvements, whether that's fat loss or sleep or less pain or muscle or strength, you're probably not going to keep them long-term unless they just really like you. Sometimes people train with people because They like them. They're not getting results, but they just like them, right? It's like buying a European car. You know this thing's going to fucking break down, but you love your car, and you don't care how much you have to pay to keep it running, right? It makes no fucking sense. Or like women who wear expensive shoes. Your shoes look good, but your feet are all fucked up and your back hurts. But you're going to keep wearing those shoes. So that's like somebody who keeps paying a trainer for no results. Now, let's say first three weeks imperative, I get results to show proof of concept.